THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and infifting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , fometimes concealed , fometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to prevail ...
... increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and infifting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , fometimes concealed , fometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to prevail ...
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... can 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.
... can 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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... increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercifed , where the houses are built of combustible mate- rials , and where they stand extremely close . In the fecond place , the ...
... increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercifed , where the houses are built of combustible mate- rials , and where they stand extremely close . In the fecond place , the ...
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... increases this cause of grandeur , as it ex- cludes the idea of art and contrivance ; for dex- terity produces another fort of effect , which is different enough from this . SECT . XIII . MAGNIFICENCE . MAGNIFICENCE is likewise a fource ...
... increases this cause of grandeur , as it ex- cludes the idea of art and contrivance ; for dex- terity produces another fort of effect , which is different enough from this . SECT . XIII . MAGNIFICENCE . MAGNIFICENCE is likewise a fource ...
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... increases our terrour , more perhaps than any thing else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can happen ; and hence it is , that uncer- tainty is so terrible , that we often feek to be ...
... increases our terrour , more perhaps than any thing else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can happen ; and hence it is , that uncer- tainty is so terrible , that we often feek to be ...
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