The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... labour , in which , if the suthor 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 com- pass the designs they pretend to have in ...
... labour , in which , if the suthor 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 com- pass the designs they pretend to have in ...
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... labour , and began to subsist themselves from the public revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the ...
... labour , and began to subsist themselves from the public revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the ...
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... labour , and have , in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour . But hold -a sagacious commander , in the adversary's army , has found a flaw in the proceeding . My triumph is turned into mourn- ing . I have used ...
... labour , and have , in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour . But hold -a sagacious commander , in the adversary's army , has found a flaw in the proceeding . My triumph is turned into mourn- ing . I have used ...
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... labours . In a state of artificial society , it is a law as constant and as in- variable , that those who labour most enjoy the fewest things ; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution ...
... labours . In a state of artificial society , it is a law as constant and as in- variable , that those who labour most enjoy the fewest things ; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution ...
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... labour continually , which is the severest labour , but their hearts are torn by the worst , most troublesome , and insatiable of all passions , by avarice , by ambition , by fear and jealousy . No part of the mind has rest . Power ...
... labour continually , which is the severest labour , but their hearts are torn by the worst , most troublesome , and insatiable of all passions , by avarice , by ambition , by fear and jealousy . No part of the mind has rest . Power ...
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