The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... ruin of the whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the con- sequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at ...
... ruin of the whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the con- sequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at ...
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... ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter ...
... ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter ...
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... ruin , which seemed to shake the whole earth . The extent of this war which vèxed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly ...
... ruin , which seemed to shake the whole earth . The extent of this war which vèxed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly ...
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... ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's go- vernment . Then is the natural violence of despotism in- flamed and aggravated by ...
... ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's go- vernment . Then is the natural violence of despotism in- flamed and aggravated by ...
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... ruin of this city of wicked bedlamites , he could not have taken a more effec- tual method to do it , than by such an insnaring largess . The distribution of this bounty caused a quarrel ; the ma- jority set on foot an inquiry into the ...
... ruin of this city of wicked bedlamites , he could not have taken a more effec- tual method to do it , than by such an insnaring largess . The distribution of this bounty caused a quarrel ; the ma- jority set on foot an inquiry into the ...
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