THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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religion , we might with as good colour , and with the fame fuccefs , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no better than foolishness There is an air of plaufibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and ...
religion , we might with as good colour , and with the fame fuccefs , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no better than foolishness There is an air of plaufibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and ...
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... fame opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from falfe propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to ...
... fame opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from falfe propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to ...
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... fame philofophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nifter the comfort . a On confidering political focieties , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have fome- times been in a good deal more than ...
... fame philofophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nifter the comfort . a On confidering political focieties , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have fome- times been in a good deal more than ...
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... fame tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual defires of the fexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children , which are the refults of these ...
... fame tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual defires of the fexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children , which are the refults of these ...
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... fame place where his predeceffors had before by a fimilar mad- nefs confumed the flower of fo many kingdoms , and wafted the force of fo extenfive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Perfian em- pire in its wars ...
... fame place where his predeceffors had before by a fimilar mad- nefs confumed the flower of fo many kingdoms , and wafted the force of fo extenfive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Perfian em- pire in its wars ...
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