The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page 53
... means to that end in a way entirely similar . The divine thunders out his anath- emas with more noise and terror against the breach of one of his positive institutions , or the neglect of some of his trivial forms , than against the ...
... means to that end in a way entirely similar . The divine thunders out his anath- emas with more noise and terror against the breach of one of his positive institutions , or the neglect of some of his trivial forms , than against the ...
Page 54
Edmund Burke. of our own property ? By no means . You then , who are initiated into the mysteries of the blindfold god- dess , inform me whether I have a right to eat the bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my ...
Edmund Burke. of our own property ? By no means . You then , who are initiated into the mysteries of the blindfold god- dess , inform me whether I have a right to eat the bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my ...
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... means , and those who arrive at the end , are not at all the same persons ? On considering the strange and ... mean and insufficient ideas . This is but too true ; and this is one of the reasons for which I blame such institutions . In a ...
... means , and those who arrive at the end , are not at all the same persons ? On considering the strange and ... mean and insufficient ideas . This is but too true ; and this is one of the reasons for which I blame such institutions . In a ...
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... means of murdering several times the num- ber of inhabitants now upon the earth , during its short existence , not upwards of four thousand years in any accounts to be depended on . But we have said nothing of the other , and perhaps as ...
... means of murdering several times the num- ber of inhabitants now upon the earth , during its short existence , not upwards of four thousand years in any accounts to be depended on . But we have said nothing of the other , and perhaps as ...
Page 69
... means I have been better enabled to discover the imperfections of the work , the indulgence it has received , imperfect as it was , furnished me with a new motive to spare no reasonable pains for its im- provement . Though I have not ...
... means I have been better enabled to discover the imperfections of the work , the indulgence it has received , imperfect as it was , furnished me with a new motive to spare no reasonable pains for its im- provement . Though I have not ...
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