The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth ...
... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth ...
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... all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 27.
... all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 27.
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... things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious commander who had merited and might demand the ...
... things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious commander who had merited and might demand the ...
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... things of the last importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely ...
... things of the last importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely ...
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... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they ...
... things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they ...
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