THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully expofed . We begin to think and to act from reafon and from nature alone . This is true of feveral , but still is by far the ma- jority in the fame old state ...
... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully expofed . We begin to think and to act from reafon and from nature alone . This is true of feveral , but still is by far the ma- jority in the fame old state ...
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... what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilft the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 1 菊 lican and tyrannical parties , and the poffeffion ftruggled 22 A VINDICATION OF.
... what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilft the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 1 菊 lican and tyrannical parties , and the poffeffion ftruggled 22 A VINDICATION OF.
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菊 lican and tyrannical parties , and the poffeffion ftruggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Car- thaginians , and the Romans , your Lordship will eafily recollect . You will remember the total de- ftruction of fuch bodies as an ...
菊 lican and tyrannical parties , and the poffeffion ftruggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Car- thaginians , and the Romans , your Lordship will eafily recollect . You will remember the total de- ftruction of fuch bodies as an ...
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... tyranny , and flavery , is requifite to fupport these focieties , the intereft , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the reft , without any ...
... tyranny , and flavery , is requifite to fupport these focieties , the intereft , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the reft , without any ...
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... cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers who VOL . I. D have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of ftate - free . NATURAL SOCIETY . 33.
... cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers who VOL . I. D have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of ftate - free . NATURAL SOCIETY . 33.
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