The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... opinions , but which he afterwards abandoned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him at least to complete the larger public let- ter ...
... opinions , but which he afterwards abandoned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him at least to complete the larger public let- ter ...
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... opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favor of what , on the very proposal , they have thought utterly ...
... opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favor of what , on the very proposal , they have thought utterly ...
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... opinion , that error , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by ...
... opinion , that error , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by ...
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... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candor which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by ...
... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candor which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by ...
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... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune that in no part of the globe nat- ural liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adultera- tions . Yet we ...
... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune that in no part of the globe nat- ural liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adultera- tions . Yet we ...
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