The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community , but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community , but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
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... a glance the carnage which was made . at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... a glance the carnage which was made . at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
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... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
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... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsider- able part of the globe , such a ...
... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsider- able part of the globe , such a ...
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