The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... Laws against Irish Catholics , which was probably inserted where it stands from its relation to the subject of the Letter addressed by him , at a later period , to Sir Hercules Langrishe . With the same exception , too , strict regard ...
... Laws against Irish Catholics , which was probably inserted where it stands from its relation to the subject of the Letter addressed by him , at a later period , to Sir Hercules Langrishe . With the same exception , too , strict regard ...
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... laws ; and then , it raises imagi- nary terrors to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws . Many things have been said , and very well undoubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the ...
... laws ; and then , it raises imagi- nary terrors to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws . Many things have been said , and very well undoubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the ...
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... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it ...
... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it ...
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... laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we re- ceive government as a thing necessary , or even use- ful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us ...
... laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we re- ceive government as a thing necessary , or even use- ful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us ...
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... laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incon- testable truth that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has ...
... laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incon- testable truth that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has ...
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