The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... 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 blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of mankind began first to form them ...
... 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 blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of mankind began first to form them ...
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... foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical ...
... foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical ...
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... foreign slaughter , turned its edge upon the bowels of the Roman republic it- self ; and presented a scene of cruelties and treasons enough almost to obliterate the memory of all the external devastations . I intended , my lord , to ...
... foreign slaughter , turned its edge upon the bowels of the Roman republic it- self ; and presented a scene of cruelties and treasons enough almost to obliterate the memory of all the external devastations . I intended , my lord , to ...
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... foreign conquest , not by accident , but by the very nature and constitution of a democracy . An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite ...
... foreign conquest , not by accident , but by the very nature and constitution of a democracy . An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite ...
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... foreign princes on the one side or the other . And besides its own parties , in this city there were parties , and avowed ones too , for the Persians , Spartans , and Macedonians , supported each of them by one or more demagogues ...
... foreign princes on the one side or the other . And besides its own parties , in this city there were parties , and avowed ones too , for the Persians , Spartans , and Macedonians , supported each of them by one or more demagogues ...
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