The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... principle , but you dreaded the con- sequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
... principle , but you dreaded the con- sequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
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... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new arti ficial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new arti ficial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
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... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches ...
... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches ...
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... principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says ... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the ...
... principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says ... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the ...
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... principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration , being elated with some flashes of success which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had associated with ...
... principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration , being elated with some flashes of success which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had associated with ...
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