The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... 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 , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what sit- uation you please ; but owning this ...
... 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 , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what sit- uation you please ; but owning this ...
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... species , since the beginning of the world ; though these agree ill enough with each other , and have a much greater proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye ...
... species , since the beginning of the world ; though these agree ill enough with each other , and have a much greater proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye ...
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... species of government . The 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 ...
... species of government . The 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 ...
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... species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the ...
... species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the ...
Page 34
... species of government , so justly condemned , and so generally detested , is what infinitely the greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned under from the beginning . So that , by sure and uncontested principles , the ...
... species of government , so justly condemned , and so generally detested , is what infinitely the greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned under from the beginning . So that , by sure and uncontested principles , the ...
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