THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the ma- jority in the same old state ...
... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the ma- jority in the same old state ...
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... tyranny , and flavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , 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 rest , without any ...
... tyranny , and flavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , 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 rest , 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. have D have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state - 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. have D have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state - free . NATURAL SOCIETY . 33.
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... tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the inte- refts of the people . The favourite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as unconstant and capri- cious as that of a woman ; and ...
... tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the inte- refts of the people . The favourite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as unconstant and capri- cious as that of a woman ; and ...
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... tyranny , and grind- ing the people by an oppreffion , the more feverely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and fubordinate persons , For the grofs of the people ; they are confidered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really ...
... tyranny , and grind- ing the people by an oppreffion , the more feverely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and fubordinate persons , For the grofs of the people ; they are confidered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really ...
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