The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... 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 have not ...
... 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 have not ...
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... government is despotism , where all the inferior orbs of power are moved merely by the will of the Supreme , and all that لعا judgment are subjected to them directed in the same manner , 80 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... government is despotism , where all the inferior orbs of power are moved merely by the will of the Supreme , and all that لعا judgment are subjected to them directed in the same manner , 80 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... manner of ruling being directed merely by the will of the weakest , and generally the worst man in the society , becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the same time that it is the most ter- rible and destructive that well ...
... manner of ruling being directed merely by the will of the weakest , and generally the worst man in the society , becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the same time that it is the most ter- rible and destructive that well ...
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... manner did this philosopher comfort him for the loss of such a man , and heal his con- science , flagrant with the smart of such a crime ? You have the matter at length in Plutarch . He told him , " that let a sovereign do what he will ...
... manner did this philosopher comfort him for the loss of such a man , and heal his con- science , flagrant with the smart of such a crime ? You have the matter at length in Plutarch . He told him , " that let a sovereign do what he will ...
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... manner , its succession is insensible ; and every man as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never was it known that an aristocracy , which was haughty and tyrannical in one century , became easy ...
... manner , its succession is insensible ; and every man as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never was it known that an aristocracy , which was haughty and tyrannical in one century , became easy ...
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