THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... lives of all thinking men extremely miferable , if the fame philofophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nifter the comfort . a On confidering political focieties , their origin , their constitution , and their ...
... lives of all thinking men extremely miferable , if the fame philofophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nifter the comfort . a On confidering political focieties , their origin , their constitution , and their ...
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... lives muft have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a facrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the laft hand to this fcene of mifery and deftruction . His kingdom was ...
... lives muft have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a facrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the laft hand to this fcene of mifery and deftruction . His kingdom was ...
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... live under forms that have a milder appearance , that there is fcarce a rational man in Europe , that would not prefer death to Afiatick defpotifm . Here then we have the ac- knowledgment of a great philofopher , that an ir- regular ...
... live under forms that have a milder appearance , that there is fcarce a rational man in Europe , that would not prefer death to Afiatick defpotifm . Here then we have the ac- knowledgment of a great philofopher , that an ir- regular ...
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who discovered , " that to live by one man's will , was " the cause of all men's mifery . " They therefore changed their former method , and affembling the men in their several focieties , the moft refpectable for their understanding ...
who discovered , " that to live by one man's will , was " the cause of all men's mifery . " They therefore changed their former method , and affembling the men in their several focieties , the moft refpectable for their understanding ...
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... lives . But unhappily for us , in propor- tion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increafed the follies and miferies of mankind . The more deeply we ...
... lives . But unhappily for us , in propor- tion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increafed the follies and miferies of mankind . The more deeply we ...
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