The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION xvii 67 263 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " 66 THE • THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS · 269 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER ...
... SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION xvii 67 263 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " 66 THE • THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS · 269 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER ...
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... short result of his 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 ...
... short result of his 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 ...
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... short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places and they ...
... short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places and they ...
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... short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are per- haps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at ...
... short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are per- haps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at ...
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... short , it were hardly possible to con- ceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punic wars that ensued soon after did not present one that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation and ruin , which seemed to ...
... short , it were hardly possible to con- ceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punic wars that ensued soon after did not present one that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation and ruin , which seemed to ...
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