The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to com- pass the designs they ...
... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to com- pass the designs they ...
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... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful har- vest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful har- vest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
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... sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , ” says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
... sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , ” says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
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Edmund Burke. and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in ...
Edmund Burke. and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in ...
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... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would dis- gust your Lordship as much as it would ...
... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would dis- gust your Lordship as much as it would ...
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