The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. but a body politic is not influenced by caprice or whim , it proceeds in a regular manner , its succession is insensible ; and every man as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never ...
Edmund Burke. but a body politic is not influenced by caprice or whim , it proceeds in a regular manner , its succession is insensible ; and every man as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never ...
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... body by the same effeminate lux- ury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state inquisition . Here you see a ...
... body by the same effeminate lux- ury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state inquisition . Here you see a ...
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... citizens ; and upon a vain pre tence of illegitimacy , newly and occasionally set up , they deprived of their share of the royal donation no less than five thousand of their own body . They A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 41.
... citizens ; and upon a vain pre tence of illegitimacy , newly and occasionally set up , they deprived of their share of the royal donation no less than five thousand of their own body . They A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 41.
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... body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but one neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely ...
... body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but one neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely ...
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... body , attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on the one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are ...
... body , attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on the one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are ...
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