The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccu- racies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of ...
... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccu- racies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of ...
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... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
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... whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Carthaginians , and the Romans , your lordship will easily recollect ...
... whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Carthaginians , and the Romans , your lordship will easily recollect ...
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... 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 carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great car- nage , great as ...
... 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 carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great car- nage , great as ...
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... whilst he persuades the prince that those mur- murs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and aggra- vated by hatred and revenge . To ...
... whilst he persuades the prince that those mur- murs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and aggra- vated by hatred and revenge . To ...
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