The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... appear to many no better than foolishness . There is an air of plausibility which ac- companies vulgar reasonings and notions , taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience , that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of ...
... appear to many no better than foolishness . There is an air of plausibility which ac- companies vulgar reasonings and notions , taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience , that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of ...
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... appear . They come purified from the fire . My business is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and experience , how far policy has ...
... appear . They come purified from the fire . My business is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and experience , how far policy has ...
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... appears on other occasions . The very name of a politician , a statesman , is sure to cause terror and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud , and tyranny ; and those writers , who have ...
... appears on other occasions . The very name of a politician , a statesman , is sure to cause terror and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud , and tyranny ; and those writers , who have ...
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... appear- ance , they had secured by this method the advantages of order and good government , without paying their liberty for the purchase . Now , my Lord , we are come to the master- piece of Grecian refinement , and Roman solidity , a ...
... appear- ance , they had secured by this method the advantages of order and good government , without paying their liberty for the purchase . Now , my Lord , we are come to the master- piece of Grecian refinement , and Roman solidity , a ...
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... appear , in reality and truth , no better than pitiful and oppressive oligarchies . After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exag- gerated ; no fact produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any ...
... appear , in reality and truth , no better than pitiful and oppressive oligarchies . After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exag- gerated ; no fact produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any ...
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