The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these the editor of the follow- ing little piece has addressed it : there is no reason to conceal the design of it any longer ...
... common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these the editor of the follow- ing little piece has addressed it : there is no reason to conceal the design of it any longer ...
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... common arbitrator to resort to in their differences . These were evils which they could not but have felt pretty severely on many occasions . The original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much ...
... common arbitrator to resort to in their differences . These were evils which they could not but have felt pretty severely on many occasions . The original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much ...
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... common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense ...
... common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense ...
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... natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others , is completed by their suspicions , and their dread of losing an authority , which has no no support in the common utility of the nation . NATURAL SOCIETY . 41 .
... natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others , is completed by their suspicions , and their dread of losing an authority , which has no no support in the common utility of the nation . NATURAL SOCIETY . 41 .
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Edmund Burke. no support in the common utility of the nation . A Genoese , or a Venetian republick , is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims ...
Edmund Burke. no support in the common utility of the nation . A Genoese , or a Venetian republick , is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims ...
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