The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives . but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ( for Justin expressly tells us he did . not maintain his conquests ) , but ...
... least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives . but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ( for Justin expressly tells us he did . not maintain his conquests ) , but ...
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... least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their destruction . The armies and fleets of Xerxes , their numbers , the glorious stand ...
... least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their destruction . The armies and fleets of Xerxes , their numbers , the glorious stand ...
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... least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and , before that , the disputes of the Greek common- wealths among themselves , for an unprofitable supe- riority , form one of the bloodiest scenes in history ...
... least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and , before that , the disputes of the Greek common- wealths among themselves , for an unprofitable supe- riority , form one of the bloodiest scenes in history ...
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... least , was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest accounts of them , to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their intes- tine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three ...
... least , was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest accounts of them , to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their intes- tine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three ...
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... least , without any enthusiastic admiration . I acknowledge , indeed , the necessity of such a proceeding in such institutions ; but I must have a very mean opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a ...
... least , without any enthusiastic admiration . I acknowledge , indeed , the necessity of such a proceeding in such institutions ; but I must have a very mean opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a ...
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