The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which ...
... consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which ...
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... consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calcula- tion , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth ...
... consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calcula- tion , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth ...
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... six millions . Besides those killed in battles I have said something , not half what the matter would have justified , but something I have said concerning the consequences of war even more dreadful than said NATURAL SOCIETY . 29.
... six millions . Besides those killed in battles I have said something , not half what the matter would have justified , but something I have said concerning the consequences of war even more dreadful than said NATURAL SOCIETY . 29.
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... consequences than your Lordship . I now come to shew , that political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that ...
... consequences than your Lordship . I now come to shew , that political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that ...
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... consequence was such as might be expected . He grew every day a monster more abandoned to unnatural lust , to debauchery , to drunkenness , and to murder . And yet this was originally a great man , of uncommon capacity , and a strong ...
... consequence was such as might be expected . He grew every day a monster more abandoned to unnatural lust , to debauchery , to drunkenness , and to murder . And yet this was originally a great man , of uncommon capacity , and a strong ...
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