The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpe- tually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of ...
... slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpe- tually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of ...
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... slavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
... slavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
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... abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion : proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . 36 A VINDICATION OF.
... abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion : proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . 36 A VINDICATION OF.
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Edmund Burke. proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample on the publick welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most ...
Edmund Burke. proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample on the publick welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most ...
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... slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base one of fear . In this kind of government , human nature is not only abused ...
... slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base one of fear . In this kind of government , human nature is not only abused ...
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