THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... fure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offenfive , by the impetuofity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propenfity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
... fure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offenfive , by the impetuofity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propenfity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
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... fure , but by being fenfible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the refult of a reafon which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , juft within our reach , what would ...
... fure , but by being fenfible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the refult of a reafon which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , juft within our reach , what would ...
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... fure , from the earliest accounts of them , to their abforption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their inteftine divifions , and their fo- reign wars , confumed lefs than three millions of their inhabitants . What an ...
... fure , from the earliest accounts of them , to their abforption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their inteftine divifions , and their fo- reign wars , confumed lefs than three millions of their inhabitants . What an ...
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... fure I have not of what is actually afcertained in hiftory ; but how much of thefe butcheries are only expreffed in generals , what part of time hif- tory has never reached , and what vaft fpaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
... fure I have not of what is actually afcertained in hiftory ; but how much of thefe butcheries are only expreffed in generals , what part of time hif- tory has never reached , and what vaft fpaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
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... fure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the go- vernments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the moft diforderly anarchies . How much other ...
... fure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the go- vernments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the moft diforderly anarchies . How much other ...
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