The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and ...
... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and ...
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... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
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... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . duct of political societies made old Hobbe th , The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in ...
... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . duct of political societies made old Hobbe th , The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in ...
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... virtue . Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the least hope of ...
... virtue . Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the least hope of ...
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... virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradi- cated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince ...
... virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradi- cated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince ...
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