The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ...
... regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ...
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... regulations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such saughters , agreed in the same ...
... regulations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such saughters , agreed in the same ...
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... regulations have done more mischief in cold blood , than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their greatest terrors , or furies , has ever done , or ever could do ! These evils are not accidental . Whoever will take the pains to ...
... regulations have done more mischief in cold blood , than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their greatest terrors , or furies , has ever done , or ever could do ! These evils are not accidental . Whoever will take the pains to ...
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... regulations to prevent it , the simple name of man , applied properly , never fails to work a salutary effect . This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the un- possessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions . The very ...
... regulations to prevent it , the simple name of man , applied properly , never fails to work a salutary effect . This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the un- possessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions . The very ...
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... regulations ; his imme- diate successors have made more and better . This part will be handled more ably and more minutely at another time ; but no one can cut down this bill of extraordinaries at his pleasure . The author has given us ...
... regulations ; his imme- diate successors have made more and better . This part will be handled more ably and more minutely at another time ; but no one can cut down this bill of extraordinaries at his pleasure . The author has given us ...
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