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Page xix
... still remained in its original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval pafsed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of infertion and alteration than his friends on ...
... still remained in its original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval pafsed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of infertion and alteration than his friends on ...
Page xxvii
... still more , as being strongly expressive of that parental affection which formed so amiable a feature in the cha- racter of Mr. Burke . It is in page 208 of Vol . V. where he points out a confiderable passage as having been supplied by ...
... still more , as being strongly expressive of that parental affection which formed so amiable a feature in the cha- racter of Mr. Burke . It is in page 208 of Vol . V. where he points out a confiderable passage as having been supplied by ...
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... still of the fame opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or false , it is a preposterous ...
... still of the fame opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or false , it is a preposterous ...
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... still fee all of them intent , are fuch as tend to the destruction * Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned this part of his argument a ...
... still fee all of them intent , are fuch as tend to the destruction * Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned this part of his argument a ...
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... still insist in charging it to political regula- tions , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient ...
... still insist in charging it to political regula- tions , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient ...
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