The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to com- pass the designs they ...
... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to com- pass the designs they ...
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... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful har- vest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
... sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful har- vest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
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... sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
... sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A ...
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... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would dis- gust your Lordship as much as it would ...
... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would dis- gust your Lordship as much as it would ...
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... sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of mankind seems to have been threatened . Such was that , when the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns poured into ...
... sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of mankind seems to have been threatened . Such was that , when the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns poured into ...
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