The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 9
... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
Page 10
... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
Page 13
... true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
... true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
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... true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and ...
... true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and ...
Page 56
... true that a man of superior force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in ...
... true that a man of superior force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in ...
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