The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
Page 30
... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
Page 74
... attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarely felt as ...
... attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarely felt as ...
Page 96
... attended with the same important consequences ; else I make no doubt but that the logick of taste , if I may be allowed the expression , might very possibly be as well digested , and we might come to discuss mat- ters of this nature ...
... attended with the same important consequences ; else I make no doubt but that the logick of taste , if I may be allowed the expression , might very possibly be as well digested , and we might come to discuss mat- ters of this nature ...
Page 120
... attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have ob- served the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is carried on , the grounds discovered ...
... attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have ob- served the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is carried on , the grounds discovered ...
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