The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of ...
... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of ...
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... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise en- lightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise en- lightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
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... an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 3 lican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for 22 A VINDICATION OF.
... an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 3 lican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for 22 A VINDICATION OF.
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... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely cre- dible . The neighbouring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series ...
... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely cre- dible . The neighbouring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series ...
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... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a car- nage has been made in two or three short reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as ...
... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a car- nage has been made in two or three short reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as ...
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