The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... opinions ( merely as opinions , and with- out any experimental reference to their effects ) when once they take strong hold of the mind , become the most opera- tive of all interests , and indeed very often supersede every other . I ...
... opinions ( merely as opinions , and with- out any experimental reference to their effects ) when once they take strong hold of the mind , become the most opera- tive of all interests , and indeed very often supersede every other . I ...
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... opinion , formidable club , * which , though now quiet , may be brought into action with considerable unanimi- ty and force . Formerly few , except the ambitious great , or the despe- rate and indigent , were to be feared as instruments ...
... opinion , formidable club , * which , though now quiet , may be brought into action with considerable unanimi- ty and force . Formerly few , except the ambitious great , or the despe- rate and indigent , were to be feared as instruments ...
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... opinion , that the exclusive spirit of the French nobility , did irritate the wealthy of other classes . But I found long since , that persons in trade and business were by no means despised in France in the manner I had been taught to ...
... opinion , that the exclusive spirit of the French nobility , did irritate the wealthy of other classes . But I found long since , that persons in trade and business were by no means despised in France in the manner I had been taught to ...
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... opinion and prejudice . In England a security against the envy of men in these class- es , is not so very complete ... opinions growing out of them . period in the history of England have so few peers been taken out of trade or from ...
... opinion and prejudice . In England a security against the envy of men in these class- es , is not so very complete ... opinions growing out of them . period in the history of England have so few peers been taken out of trade or from ...
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... opinion , likely to be more decisive upon the general fate of nations than that of France itself ; other than as in France is to be found the first source of all the principles which are in any way likely to distinguish the troubles and ...
... opinion , likely to be more decisive upon the general fate of nations than that of France itself ; other than as in France is to be found the first source of all the principles which are in any way likely to distinguish the troubles and ...
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