The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doc trines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to prevail ...
... increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doc trines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to prevail ...
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... increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they stand extremely close . ยท In the second place , the ...
... increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they stand extremely close . ยท In the second place , the ...
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... increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of art , the further we find ourselves from those ends for which we entered it . This has hap- pened in almost every species of artificial ...
... increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of art , the further we find ourselves from those ends for which we entered it . This has hap- pened in almost every species of artificial ...
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... increases this cause of grandeur , as it excludes the idea of art and contriv- ance ; for dexterity produces another sort of effect , which is different enough from this . Part IV . sect . 4 , 5 , 6 . SECTION XIII . MAGNIFICENCE ...
... increases this cause of grandeur , as it excludes the idea of art and contriv- ance ; for dexterity produces another sort of effect , which is different enough from this . Part IV . sect . 4 , 5 , 6 . SECTION XIII . MAGNIFICENCE ...
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... increases our terror , more perhaps than anything else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can hap- pen ; and hence it is that uncertainty is so terrible , that we often seek to be rid ...
... increases our terror , more perhaps than anything else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can hap- pen ; and hence it is that uncertainty is so terrible , that we often seek to be rid ...
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