The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... laws ; and then , it raises imaginary terrors to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws . Many things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the ...
... laws ; and then , it raises imaginary terrors to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws . Many things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to the ...
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... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has ...
... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has ...
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... laws receive a sanction from artificial revela- tions . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us ...
... laws receive a sanction from artificial revela- tions . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us ...
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... laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has ...
... laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has ...
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... laws ? These paradoxes I leave to be solved by the able heads of legislators and politicians . For my part , I say ... law of nature . To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a viola- tion offered to nature , and a constraint ...
... laws ? These paradoxes I leave to be solved by the able heads of legislators and politicians . For my part , I say ... law of nature . To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a viola- tion offered to nature , and a constraint ...
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