The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? 10 20 I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro-- pose to compass the designs they pretend to ...
... labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? 10 20 I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro-- pose to compass the designs they pretend to ...
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... labour , and began to subsist themselves from the publick revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the ...
... labour , and began to subsist themselves from the publick revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the ...
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... labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexatión , a judgment in my favour . But hold - a sagacious commander , in the adver- sary's army , has found a flaw in the proceeding . My triumph is turned into mourning . I have used or ...
... labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexatión , a judgment in my favour . But hold - a sagacious commander , in the adver- sary's army , has found a flaw in the proceeding . My triumph is turned into mourning . I have used or ...
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... of the poor . In a state of nature , it is an invariable law , that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours . In a state of artificial society , F3 society , it is a law as constant and as NATURAL SOCIETY . 69.
... of the poor . In a state of nature , it is an invariable law , that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours . In a state of artificial society , F3 society , it is a law as constant and as NATURAL SOCIETY . 69.
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... labour most , enjoy the fewest things ; and that those who labour not at all , have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitu- ton of things this , strange and ridiculous beyond expression . We scarce believe a thing when , we are ...
... labour most , enjoy the fewest things ; and that those who labour not at all , have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitu- ton of things this , strange and ridiculous beyond expression . We scarce believe a thing when , we are ...
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