THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... best know to have been in his efti- mation one of the most important moral du- ties , never himself made any collection of the various publications with which , during a period of forty years , he adorned and enriched the literature of ...
... best know to have been in his efti- mation one of the most important moral du- ties , never himself made any collection of the various publications with which , during a period of forty years , he adorned and enriched the literature of ...
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... different return , will be best conveyed in his own words . The following is an extract of a letter to a friend , which he dictated on this fubject from a fick bed . " MY " MY DEAR LAURENCE , Bath , 15th Feb. 1797 viii ADVERTISEMENT .
... different return , will be best conveyed in his own words . The following is an extract of a letter to a friend , which he dictated on this fubject from a fick bed . " MY " MY DEAR LAURENCE , Bath , 15th Feb. 1797 viii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... been circulated through the 66 Ministry , and was intended gradually to " flide into the prefs . To the best of my re- " collection , I never had a clean copy of it " but " but one , which is now in my poffeffion ADVERTISEMENT . ix.
... been circulated through the 66 Ministry , and was intended gradually to " flide into the prefs . To the best of my re- " collection , I never had a clean copy of it " but " but one , which is now in my poffeffion ADVERTISEMENT . ix.
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... best received au- thorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trufted , will find this object , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quota- tions which are interfperfed ...
... best received au- thorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trufted , will find this object , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quota- tions which are interfperfed ...
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... craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents fome new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were were the best and fareft guide . It finds out Ισ A VINDICATION OF.
... craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents fome new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were were the best and fareft guide . It finds out Ισ A VINDICATION OF.
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