The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... never pub- lished , bore fruit in his own mind , and his training placed him both in knowledge and judgment far in advance of Johnson as a philologist . Webster's ' American Dictionary of the English Language ' was pub- lished in 1828 ...
... never pub- lished , bore fruit in his own mind , and his training placed him both in knowledge and judgment far in advance of Johnson as a philologist . Webster's ' American Dictionary of the English Language ' was pub- lished in 1828 ...
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... never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
... never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
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... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habit- able globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habit- able globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
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... never believe , that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
... never believe , that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
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... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
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