The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... sort ) the best received authorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trusted , will find this ob- ject , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are ...
... sort ) the best received authorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trusted , will find this ob- ject , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are ...
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... sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they pretend ...
... sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they pretend ...
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... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very frequently ...
... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very frequently ...
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... sort of state , however con- stituted . " He ought , " says this great political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
... sort of state , however con- stituted . " He ought , " says this great political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
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... sort of method in estimating the num- bers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would disgust your lordship as much as it would ...
... sort of method in estimating the num- bers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would disgust your lordship as much as it would ...
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