The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , “ THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " . • 269 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr. The Difference between the Removal of Pain ...
... OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , “ THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " . • 269 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr. The Difference between the Removal of Pain ...
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... observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
... observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
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... observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
... observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
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... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives . but pride , cruelty ...
... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives . but pride , cruelty ...
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... Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire ... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of 42 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire ... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of 42 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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