The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... mind , and the lively interest which he took in the welfare of his country . ceased only with his life , many subsequent produc- tions issued from his pen , which were received in a manner corresponding with his distinguished reputa ...
... mind , and the lively interest which he took in the welfare of his country . ceased only with his life , many subsequent produc- tions issued from his pen , which were received in a manner corresponding with his distinguished reputa ...
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... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and gov- ernment ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and gov- ernment ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
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... mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and vir tue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imag ...
... mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and vir tue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imag ...
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... mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most ...
... mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most ...
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... minds . The body , or as some love to call it , our inferior nature , is wiser in its own plain way , and attends its own business more directly than the mind with all its boasted sub- tlety . - In the state of nature , without question ...
... minds . The body , or as some love to call it , our inferior nature , is wiser in its own plain way , and attends its own business more directly than the mind with all its boasted sub- tlety . - In the state of nature , without question ...
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