The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 24
... less miserable manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the begin- ning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calcu- lation , allowing for time and extent . We ...
... less miserable manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the begin- ning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calcu- lation , allowing for time and extent . We ...
Page 26
... less inclined to draw consequences than your lordship . I now come to show that political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this de- struction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the ...
... less inclined to draw consequences than your lordship . I now come to show that political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this de- struction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the ...
Page 28
... less worth observing , that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension among them . The names which distinguish them are enough to blow up hatred and rage ...
... less worth observing , that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension among them . The names which distinguish them are enough to blow up hatred and rage ...
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... less afraid of one another than they are of the people ; and , for that reason , politically enervate their own body by the same effeminate lux- ury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every means which can ...
... less afraid of one another than they are of the people ; and , for that reason , politically enervate their own body by the same effeminate lux- ury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every means which can ...
Page 38
... less an artist than the celebrated poet and philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the stocks , than it overset , even in the lifetime of the builder . A tyranny immedi- ately supervened ; not by a ...
... less an artist than the celebrated poet and philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the stocks , than it overset , even in the lifetime of the builder . A tyranny immedi- ately supervened ; not by a ...
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