The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and ...
... whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and ...
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... whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ...
... whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ...
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... 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 considered , and those matters which are ...
... 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 considered , and those matters which are ...
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... whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . I do not pretend to exactness ; therefore , for the sake of a general view , I shall lay together all those actually slain in ...
... whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . I do not pretend to exactness ; therefore , for the sake of a general view , I shall lay together all those actually slain in ...
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... whole might be heightened , by an affecting description of the horrors that attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon ...
... whole might be heightened , by an affecting description of the horrors that attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon ...
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