The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ideas of ...
... tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ideas of ...
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... tion , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regulations ...
... tion , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regulations ...
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... tion of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe ...
... tion of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe ...
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... tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons ...
... tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons ...
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... tion of all men's lives and properties , they have reduced all mankind into the most abject and servile dependence . We are tenants at the will of these gentlemen for everything ; and a metaphysical quibble is to decide whether the ...
... tion of all men's lives and properties , they have reduced all mankind into the most abject and servile dependence . We are tenants at the will of these gentlemen for everything ; and a metaphysical quibble is to decide whether the ...
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