THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... short result of his opinions , but which he afterwards aban- doned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him at least to complete the ...
... short result of his opinions , but which he afterwards aban- doned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him at least to complete the ...
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... short , all who confider such things as philosophy , and require fome of them at least , in every philofophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precisely in their former places : : B ...
... short , all who confider such things as philosophy , and require fome of them at least , in every philofophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precisely in their former places : : B ...
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... short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at ...
... short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at ...
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... short , it were hardly possible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that ensued foon after did not pre- sent one , that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation , and ruin , which ...
... short , it were hardly possible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that ensued foon after did not pre- sent one , that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation , and ruin , which ...
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... from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car- nage has been made in two or three short reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as it is 26 A VINDICATION ...
... from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car- nage has been made in two or three short reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as it is 26 A VINDICATION ...
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