THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... fufficient to wear down its ftrength , it will be far from excess to suppose that one half was loft in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious , and from the circum- ftances , it must have been this at the leaft ; the ...
... fufficient to wear down its ftrength , it will be far from excess to suppose that one half was loft in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious , and from the circum- ftances , it must have been this at the leaft ; the ...
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... fufficient to facrifice to the pitiful ambition of poffeffing five or fix thousand more acres , or two or three more villages : yet to fee the acrimony and bitterness with which this was difputed between the Athenians and Lacede ...
... fufficient to facrifice to the pitiful ambition of poffeffing five or fix thousand more acres , or two or three more villages : yet to fee the acrimony and bitterness with which this was difputed between the Athenians and Lacede ...
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... fufficient dignity in mifchief , to merit a place in hiftory , but which by their fre- quency compenfate for this comparative inno- cence ; fhall I inflame the account by those gene- ral maffacres which have devoured whole cities and ...
... fufficient dignity in mifchief , to merit a place in hiftory , but which by their fre- quency compenfate for this comparative inno- cence ; fhall I inflame the account by those gene- ral maffacres which have devoured whole cities and ...
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... fufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their braveft commanders were obliged to fly their country , fome to enter into the fervice of its enemies , rather than abide a po- Sciant quibus moris illicita mirari , poffe ...
... fufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their braveft commanders were obliged to fly their country , fome to enter into the fervice of its enemies , rather than abide a po- Sciant quibus moris illicita mirari , poffe ...
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... fufficient discoveries con- cerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all . The monarchick , and aristocratical , and popular partifans have been jointly laying their axes to the root of all govern- ment ...
... fufficient discoveries con- cerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all . The monarchick , and aristocratical , and popular partifans have been jointly laying their axes to the root of all govern- ment ...
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