THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... flavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
... flavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
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... yet poffefs abundantly of every thing to gra- tify his most infatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in pro- portion portion to the wretchedness and flavery of his fub- jects 36 A VINDICATION OF.
... yet poffefs abundantly of every thing to gra- tify his most infatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in pro- portion portion to the wretchedness and flavery of his fub- jects 36 A VINDICATION OF.
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portion to the wretchedness and flavery of his fub- jects . Thus encouraged both by paffion and in- terest to trample on the publick welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , ' he proceeds to the most horrid and ...
portion to the wretchedness and flavery of his fub- jects . Thus encouraged both by paffion and in- terest to trample on the publick welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , ' he proceeds to the most horrid and ...
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... flavery ; they make themselves the most degenerate , and unhappy of mankind , for no other purpose than that they may the more effectually contribute to the misery of a whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings ...
... flavery ; they make themselves the most degenerate , and unhappy of mankind , for no other purpose than that they may the more effectually contribute to the misery of a whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings ...
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... those who gave it into flavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the fame good fortune produced men of uncommon abilities and uncom- mon mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were fuffered NATURAL SOCIETY . 45.
... those who gave it into flavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the fame good fortune produced men of uncommon abilities and uncom- mon mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were fuffered NATURAL SOCIETY . 45.
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