The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... sure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
... sure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfor- tunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
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... sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would ...
... sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would ...
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... sure , from the earliest accounts of them , to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama ...
... sure , from the earliest accounts of them , to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama ...
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... sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time his- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
... sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time his- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
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... sure to cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers who have VOL . I. D have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state - free- masonry NATURAL ...
... sure to cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers who have VOL . I. D have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state - free- masonry NATURAL ...
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