The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 43
... factions , which subsisted at Athens , the same tu- mults , the same revolutions , and , in fine , the same slavery ; if , perhaps , their former condition did not deserve that name altogether as well . All other re- publics were of the ...
... factions , which subsisted at Athens , the same tu- mults , the same revolutions , and , in fine , the same slavery ; if , perhaps , their former condition did not deserve that name altogether as well . All other re- publics were of the ...
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... faction has , in one reign , promoted popular seditions , and , in the next , been a patron of tyranny : I could show that they have all of them betrayed the public safety at all times , and have very frequently with equal perfidy made ...
... faction has , in one reign , promoted popular seditions , and , in the next , been a patron of tyranny : I could show that they have all of them betrayed the public safety at all times , and have very frequently with equal perfidy made ...
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... faction , I will not presume to determine . Sure I am that they are very great evils . I have done with the forms of government . Dur- ing the course of my inquiry you may have observed a very material difference between my manner of ...
... faction , I will not presume to determine . Sure I am that they are very great evils . I have done with the forms of government . Dur- ing the course of my inquiry you may have observed a very material difference between my manner of ...
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... factions . Some pretenders even to the crown ; and those who did not pretend to the whole , aimed at the partition of the monarchy . There were almost as many competitors as provinces ; and all abetted by the greatest , the most ...
... factions . Some pretenders even to the crown ; and those who did not pretend to the whole , aimed at the partition of the monarchy . There were almost as many competitors as provinces ; and all abetted by the greatest , the most ...
Page 422
... faction is to be lamented . All opposition is to be regarded as the effect of envy and disappointed ambition . All administrations are de- clared to be alike . The same necessity justifies all their measures . It is no longer a matter ...
... faction is to be lamented . All opposition is to be regarded as the effect of envy and disappointed ambition . All administrations are de- clared to be alike . The same necessity justifies all their measures . It is no longer a matter ...
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