The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... political society . I charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your Lord- ship's satisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - six millions ...
... political society . I charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your Lord- ship's satisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - six millions ...
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... political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that there is a haughtiness , and fierceness in human nature ...
... political society is justly chargeable with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that there is a haughtiness , and fierceness in human nature ...
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... politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory . How far mere nature would have carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions ...
... politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory . How far mere nature would have carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions ...
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... political distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war , and destruc- tion . But there is something so benign and heal- ing in the general voice of humanity , that , maugre all our regulations to prevent it , the ...
... political distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war , and destruc- tion . But there is something so benign and heal- ing in the general voice of humanity , that , maugre all our regulations to prevent it , the ...
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... politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an occasion . I can never believe , that any institution agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case ...
... politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an occasion . I can never believe , that any institution agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it necessary , or even expedient , in any case ...
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