The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Page 38
... philosopher comfort him for the loss of such a man , and heal his conscience , flagrant with the smart of such a ... philosophers . The consequence was such as might be expected . He grew every day a monster more abandoned to ...
... philosopher comfort him for the loss of such a man , and heal his conscience , flagrant with the smart of such a ... philosophers . The consequence was such as might be expected . He grew every day a monster more abandoned to ...
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... philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and generous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet this species of ...
... philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and generous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet this species of ...
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... philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the stocks , than it overset , even in the lifetime of the builder . A tyranny immediately supervened ; not by a foreign conquest , not by accident , but by the ...
... philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the stocks , than it overset , even in the lifetime of the builder . A tyranny immediately supervened ; not by a foreign conquest , not by accident , but by the ...
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... philosopher could not venture on a free enquiry . This was the city which banished Themistocles , starved Aristides , forced into exile Miltiades , drove out Anaxagoras , and poisoned Socrates . This was a city which changed the form of ...
... philosopher could not venture on a free enquiry . This was the city which banished Themistocles , starved Aristides , forced into exile Miltiades , drove out Anaxagoras , and poisoned Socrates . This was a city which changed the form of ...
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... philosophers have done little ; and what they have done , was mostly with a view to their own schemes and sys- tems and as for those called criticks , they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it ...
... philosophers have done little ; and what they have done , was mostly with a view to their own schemes and sys- tems and as for those called criticks , they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it ...
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