The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 50
... importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely taught to look upon ...
... importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely taught to look upon ...
Page 72
... other kind of knowledge , yet freely confesses its great importance to the human understanding : " Est animorum inge- niorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturę . 72 PREFACE .
... other kind of knowledge , yet freely confesses its great importance to the human understanding : " Est animorum inge- niorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturę . 72 PREFACE .
Page 124
... importance of the things which it contemplates . Hence proceeds what Longinus has observed of that glorying and sense of inward great- ness , that always fills the reader of such passages in poets and orators as are sublime : it is what ...
... importance of the things which it contemplates . Hence proceeds what Longinus has observed of that glorying and sense of inward great- ness , that always fills the reader of such passages in poets and orators as are sublime : it is what ...
Page 143
... importance . When the prophet David con- templated the wonders of wisdom and power which are displayed in the economy of man , he seems to be struck with a sort of divine horror , and cries out , fearfully and wonderfully am I made ! An ...
... importance . When the prophet David con- templated the wonders of wisdom and power which are displayed in the economy of man , he seems to be struck with a sort of divine horror , and cries out , fearfully and wonderfully am I made ! An ...
Page 351
... to me of no small importance . It will be just enough to hint , what I dare say many readers have before observed , * Page 35 . that when any man proposes new taxes in a country ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . 351.
... to me of no small importance . It will be just enough to hint , what I dare say many readers have before observed , * Page 35 . that when any man proposes new taxes in a country ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . 351.
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