The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a ca- pacity which might be usefully exerted for the no- blest purposes , in a sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could succeed , he is ...
... advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a ca- pacity which might be usefully exerted for the no- blest purposes , in a sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could succeed , he is ...
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... advantage is in a great measure lost , when a painful , comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter , and which requires a great variety of consid- erations , is to be made ; when we must seek in a pro- found subject , not only ...
... advantage is in a great measure lost , when a painful , comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter , and which requires a great variety of consid- erations , is to be made ; when we must seek in a pro- found subject , not only ...
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... advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers against religion , whilst ...
... advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers against religion , whilst ...
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... advantage by this union . of many persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold ...
... advantage by this union . of many persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold ...
Page 12
... advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder shocks than it had ever felt before ; and through the chinks and breaches of 12 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder shocks than it had ever felt before ; and through the chinks and breaches of 12 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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