The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
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... 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 name of a politician , a statesman , is sure to cause terror and hatred ...
... 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 name of a politician , a statesman , is sure to cause terror and hatred ...
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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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