The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who from the splendid scene of action , in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investiga- tion of truth ...
... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who from the splendid scene of action , in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investiga- tion of truth ...
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... things which they , who doubt of every thing else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an observa- tion which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong ...
... things which they , who doubt of every thing else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an observa- tion which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong ...
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... things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political societies , their ...
... things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political societies , their ...
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... things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the government of our un- derstanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily necessities ought ...
... things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the government of our un- derstanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily necessities ought ...
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... things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever hated or suspected in a popular assembly , as well as in a court ; and all services done the state , are looked upon as dangerous to the ...
... things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever hated or suspected in a popular assembly , as well as in a court ; and all services done the state , are looked upon as dangerous to the ...
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