The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... , and great carnage did in those times and countries ever attend the first rage of conquest . It will , therefore , be very reason- 1 1 able to allow on their account as much as , 16 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... , and great carnage did in those times and countries ever attend the first rage of conquest . It will , therefore , be very reason- 1 1 able to allow on their account as much as , 16 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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Edmund Burke. able to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we ...
Edmund Burke. able to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we ...
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... able part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great car- nage , great as it is , makes but a minute part of what the histories of that people inform us they suffered ; what shall we ...
... able part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great car- nage , great as it is , makes but a minute part of what the histories of that people inform us they suffered ; what shall we ...
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... able heads of legislators and politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an occasion . I can never believe that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even ...
... able heads of legislators and politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an occasion . I can never believe that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even ...
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... able and experienced per- sons . But it is now found by abundant experience , that an aristocracy , and a despotism , differ but in name ; and that a people who are in general excluded from any share of the legislative , are , to all ...
... able and experienced per- sons . But it is now found by abundant experience , that an aristocracy , and a despotism , differ but in name ; and that a people who are in general excluded from any share of the legislative , are , to all ...
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