The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was , to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal ...
... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was , to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal ...
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... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good colour , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good colour , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
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... reason ; nor would such an abuse have been tolerable , even for a few pages , if some under - plot , of more consequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of ...
... reason ; nor would such an abuse have been tolerable , even for a few pages , if some under - plot , of more consequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of ...
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... reason- ing . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the 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 ...
... reason- ing . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the 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 ...
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... reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real pro- ductive ...
... reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real pro- ductive ...
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