The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of na- ture ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality ...
... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of na- ture ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality ...
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... bodies to the gov- ernment of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily neces- sities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccentric rovings of our minds . The body , or as some love ...
... bodies to the gov- ernment of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily neces- sities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccentric rovings of our minds . The body , or as some love ...
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... bodies and affections , and the children which are the results of these intercourses , introduced first the notion of ... body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this defect by laws ...
... bodies and affections , and the children which are the results of these intercourses , introduced first the notion of ... body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this defect by laws ...
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... bodies as an army of 300,000 men . You will find every page of its history dyed in blood , and blotted and con- founded by tumults , rebellions , massacres , assassina- tions , proscriptions , and a series of horror beyond the histories ...
... bodies as an army of 300,000 men . You will find every page of its history dyed in blood , and blotted and con- founded by tumults , rebellions , massacres , assassina- tions , proscriptions , and a series of horror beyond the histories ...
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... body politic , whilst it retains its authority , never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme de- gree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be ...
... body politic , whilst it retains its authority , never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme de- gree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be ...
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