The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places : and they thought they received but a ...
... things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places : and they thought they received but a ...
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... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an 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 ...
... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an 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 ...
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... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the.
... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the.
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... all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but senators . none more than this . A shining merit 38 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but senators . none more than this . A shining merit 38 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than ...
... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than ...
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