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Page vii
... were accompanied by appropriate prefaces . These , however , as they were principally intended for temporary purposes , have been omitted . A 4 omitted . Some few explanations only , which they contained ADVERTISEMENT . Vil.
... were accompanied by appropriate prefaces . These , however , as they were principally intended for temporary purposes , have been omitted . A 4 omitted . Some few explanations only , which they contained ADVERTISEMENT . Vil.
Page xiv
Edmund Burke. separated one great member of his subject , for the purpose of introducing some other matter between . The different parcels of manuscript , designed to intervene , were discovered . One of them he seemed to have gone over ...
Edmund Burke. separated one great member of his subject , for the purpose of introducing some other matter between . The different parcels of manuscript , designed to intervene , were discovered . One of them he seemed to have gone over ...
Page xvi
... purpose . Accordingly he read and considered them with attention ; but for any thing beyond this the season was now past . The Supreme Disposer of all , against whose inscrutable counsels it is vain as well as impious to murmur , did ...
... purpose . Accordingly he read and considered them with attention ; but for any thing beyond this the season was now past . The Supreme Disposer of all , against whose inscrutable counsels it is vain as well as impious to murmur , did ...
Page xix
... purpose . The greater part , how- ever , still remained in its original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval passed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of insertion and ...
... purpose . The greater part , how- ever , still remained in its original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval passed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of insertion and ...
Page 4
... purposes , in a sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro-- pose to compass the ...
... purposes , in a sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro-- pose to compass the ...
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