The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... sufficient to wear down its strength , it will be far from excess to suppose that one half was lost in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious , and from the circumstances it must have been this at the least ; the ...
... sufficient to wear down its strength , it will be far from excess to suppose that one half was lost in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious , and from the circumstances it must have been this at the least ; the ...
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... sufficient to sacrifice to the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres , or two or three more villages ; yet to see the acrimony and bitterness with which this was disputed between the Athenians and Lacedemonians ...
... sufficient to sacrifice to the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres , or two or three more villages ; yet to see the acrimony and bitterness with which this was disputed between the Athenians and Lacedemonians ...
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... sufficient dignity in mischief , to merit a place in history , but which by their frequency com- pensate for this comparative innocence ? shall I in- flame the account by those general massacres which have devoured whole cities and ...
... sufficient dignity in mischief , to merit a place in history , but which by their frequency com- pensate for this comparative innocence ? shall I in- flame the account by those general massacres which have devoured whole cities and ...
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... sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an agreement ( an impossible supposition ) , yet the means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means ...
... sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an agreement ( an impossible supposition ) , yet the means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means ...
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... sufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their bravest commanders were obliged to fly their country , some to enter into the service of its enemies , rather than abide a popular determination on their conduct , lest , as ...
... sufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their bravest commanders were obliged to fly their country , some to enter into the service of its enemies , rather than abide a popular determination on their conduct , lest , as ...
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