The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and 8 A ...
... liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and 8 A ...
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... liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of re- ligion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed ...
... liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of re- ligion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed ...
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... liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we have implanted in us by Providence , ideas , axioms , rules , of what is pious , just , fair , honest , which no political ...
... liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we have implanted in us by Providence , ideas , axioms , rules , of what is pious , just , fair , honest , which no political ...
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... liberty , it is continually in a tot- tering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism , which at last swallows up every spe- cies of government . The manner of ruling being directed merely by the will ...
... liberty , it is continually in a tot- tering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism , which at last swallows up every spe- cies of government . The manner of ruling being directed merely by the will ...
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... liberty , from which they are for ever debar- red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice ...
... liberty , from which they are for ever debar- red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice ...
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