The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... consequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for ...
... consequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for ...
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... consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which ...
... consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which ...
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... consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involuntarily feel its influence . It is therefore ...
... consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involuntarily feel its influence . It is therefore ...
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... consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power pre- vailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene ...
... consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power pre- vailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene ...
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... consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ...
... consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ...
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