The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... reality there were two copies , " and he has one . I never shewed it , as they " know , to any one of the Ministry . If the " Duke has really a copy , I believe his and " mine are the only ones that exist , except " what was taken by ...
... reality there were two copies , " and he has one . I never shewed it , as they " know , to any one of the Ministry . If the " Duke has really a copy , I believe his and " mine are the only ones that exist , except " what was taken by ...
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... reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million ...
... reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million ...
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... if we really thought that the majority of the people which filled these cities , enjoyed even that nomi- nal political freedom of which I have spoken so much much already . In reality , they had no part 52 A VINDICATION OF.
... if we really thought that the majority of the people which filled these cities , enjoyed even that nomi- nal political freedom of which I have spoken so much much already . In reality , they had no part 52 A VINDICATION OF.
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... reality and truth , no better than pitiful and oppressive oligarchies . After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exaggerated ; no fact produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any wise forced or ...
... reality and truth , no better than pitiful and oppressive oligarchies . After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exaggerated ; no fact produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any wise forced or ...
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... reality , the subject requires a much closer attention , than we dare claim from our manner of treating it . If it should not appear on the face of the work , I must caution the reader against imagining that I intended a full ...
... reality , the subject requires a much closer attention , than we dare claim from our manner of treating it . If it should not appear on the face of the work , I must caution the reader against imagining that I intended a full ...
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