The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... never had a clean copy of it but one , which is now in my possession ; I never communicated that , but to the Duke of Portland , from whom I had it back again . But the Duke will set this matter to rights , if in reality there were two ...
... never had a clean copy of it but one , which is now in my possession ; I never communicated that , but to the Duke of Portland , from whom I had it back again . But the Duke will set this matter to rights , if in reality there were two ...
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... never permit to be questioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
... never permit to be questioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
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... never walk surely , but by being sensible of our blind- ness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , when- ever we examine the result of a reason which is not Even in matters which are , as it were , our own . just within our reach ...
... never walk surely , but by being sensible of our blind- ness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , when- ever we examine the result of a reason which is not Even in matters which are , as it were , our own . just within our reach ...
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... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe . it has not embraced , I need not mention to your lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe . it has not embraced , I need not mention to your lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
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... never believe that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do what the best and worthiest in- stincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
... never believe that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do what the best and worthiest in- stincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
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