The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. changes in it , might have seemed an abandonment of the principles which it contained . The author , there- fore , discovering , that , with the exception of the in- troductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean ...
Edmund Burke. changes in it , might have seemed an abandonment of the principles which it contained . The author , there- fore , discovering , that , with the exception of the in- troductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean ...
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... principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
... principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
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... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis ; for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense and rapid ...
... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis ; for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense and rapid ...
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... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other forms exceed this we shall ...
... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other forms exceed this we shall ...
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... principles of any party , or what their preten- sions are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of op- pression and treachery . This spirit entirely reverses all the principles ...
... principles of any party , or what their preten- sions are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of op- pression and treachery . This spirit entirely reverses all the principles ...
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