The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... 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 satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
... 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 satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
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... observe much more of his Lordship's character in such parti- culars of the following letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
... observe much more of his Lordship's character in such parti- culars of the following letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
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... a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 11.
... a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 11.
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Edmund Burke. have observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely uncertain , ) opening the scene by a destruction . of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but ...
Edmund Burke. have observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely uncertain , ) opening the scene by a destruction . of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but ...
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... observe little on the Ser vile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
... observe little on the Ser vile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
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