THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are diftinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or mifery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and ...
... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are diftinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or mifery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and ...
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... virtue , which neceffarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of thofe unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
... virtue , which neceffarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of thofe unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
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... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . fo The firft accounts we have of mankind are but many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in thofe early periods when the race of mankind ...
... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . fo The firft accounts we have of mankind are but many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in thofe early periods when the race of mankind ...
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... virtue . Many of the greateft tyrants on the records of history have be- gun their reigns in the faireft manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the leaft hope of ...
... virtue . Many of the greateft tyrants on the records of history have be- gun their reigns in the faireft manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the leaft hope of ...
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... virtue . But unbound . ed power proceeds ftep by step , until it has eradi cated every laudable principle . It has been re- marked , that there is no prince fo bad , whofe fa- vourites and minifters are not worse . There is hardly any ...
... virtue . But unbound . ed power proceeds ftep by step , until it has eradi cated every laudable principle . It has been re- marked , that there is no prince fo bad , whofe fa- vourites and minifters are not worse . There is hardly any ...
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