The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... little weakened ; but we do not think our- selves entitled to alter his Lordship's words , but that we are bound to follow him exactly . and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of 10 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY ,
... little weakened ; but we do not think our- selves entitled to alter his Lordship's words , but that we are bound to follow him exactly . and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of 10 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY ,
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Edmund Burke. and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in ...
Edmund Burke. and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in ...
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... millions to be slaugh- tered , and wasted by a thousand fatal accidents , in the same place where his predecessors had before by a similar madness consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted 12 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... millions to be slaugh- tered , and wasted by a thousand fatal accidents , in the same place where his predecessors had before by a similar madness consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted 12 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap ... kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and ...
Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap ... kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and ...
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... kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical exactness , to give your ...
... kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical exactness , to give your ...
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