The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... never permit to be ques- tioned . 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 , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
... never permit to be ques- tioned . 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 , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
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... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habit- able globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
... never reached , and what vast spaces of the habit- able globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not enlarge on those torrents of silent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty sands of Afric ...
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... never believe , that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
... never believe , that any institution , agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But ...
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... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
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... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce anything in that immense ...
... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce anything in that immense ...
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