The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes ...
... misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes ...
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... misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaugh- ter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of ...
... misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaugh- ter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of ...
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... misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion : proportion to the ...
... misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion : proportion to the ...
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... misery . " They there- fore changed their former method , and assembling the men in their several societies , the most respect- able for their understanding and fortunes , they confided to them the charge of the publick welfare . This ...
... misery . " They there- fore changed their former method , and assembling the men in their several societies , the most respect- able for their understanding and fortunes , they confided to them the charge of the publick welfare . This ...
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... misery of a whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings of an aristocracy , are more intolerable than the very excesses of a despotism , and in gene- ral , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have ...
... misery of a whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings of an aristocracy , are more intolerable than the very excesses of a despotism , and in gene- ral , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have ...
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