The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to em- ploy those talents in the investigation of truth . Phi ...
... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to em- ploy those talents in the investigation of truth . Phi ...
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... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will 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 ...
... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will 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 ...
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... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the * lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if.
... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the * lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if.
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... things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely ...
... things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely ...
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... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than ...
... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than ...
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