The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... called for by the public , the opportunity has been taken to make some slight changes , it is hoped for the better . A different distribution of the contents , while it has made the volumes , with the exception of the first and sixth ...
... called for by the public , the opportunity has been taken to make some slight changes , it is hoped for the better . A different distribution of the contents , while it has made the volumes , with the exception of the first and sixth ...
Page 11
... called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened , and that we owe an implicit reverence to all the ...
... called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened , and that we owe an implicit reverence to all the ...
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... called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates ...
... called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates ...
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... called by different names : to an English- man , the name of a Frenchman , a Spaniard , an Italian , much more a Turk , or a Tartar , raises of course ideas of hatred and contempt . If you would inspire this compatriot of ours with pity ...
... called by different names : to an English- man , the name of a Frenchman , a Spaniard , an Italian , much more a Turk , or a Tartar , raises of course ideas of hatred and contempt . If you would inspire this compatriot of ours with pity ...
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... called the reason of state . It is a reason which I own I cannot penetrate . What sort of a protection is this of the general right , that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars ? What sort of justice is this , which is ...
... called the reason of state . It is a reason which I own I cannot penetrate . What sort of a protection is this of the general right , that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars ? What sort of justice is this , which is ...
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