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 offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
... fure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
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... fure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would ...
... fure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just 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 divisions , and their fo- reign wars , confumed less 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 divisions , and their fo- reign wars , confumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . ? What an ...
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... fure I have not of what is actually ascertained in hiftory ; but how much of thefe butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time hif- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
... fure I have not of what is actually ascertained in hiftory ; but how much of thefe butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time hif- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
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... fure ; it frequently happens that a very poor judge , merely by force of a greater complexional fenfi- bility , is more affected by a very poor piece , than the best judge by the most perfect ; for as every thing new , extraordinary ...
... fure ; it frequently happens that a very poor judge , merely by force of a greater complexional fenfi- bility , is more affected by a very poor piece , than the best judge by the most perfect ; for as every thing new , extraordinary ...
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