The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... mind , and the lively interest which he took in the welfare of his country , ceased only with his life , many subsequent productions issued from his pen , which were received in a manner corresponding with his distinguished reputation ...
... mind , and the lively interest which he took in the welfare of his country , ceased only with his life , many subsequent productions issued from his pen , which were received in a manner corresponding with his distinguished reputation ...
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... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and government ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and government ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
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... mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they ...
... mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they ...
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... mind , which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the crea- tion , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most ...
... mind , which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the crea- tion , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most ...
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... minds . The body , or , as some love to call it , our inferior nature , is wiser in its own plain way , and attends its own business more directly than the mind with all its boasted subtilty . In the state of nature , without question ...
... minds . The body , or , as some love to call it , our inferior nature , is wiser in its own plain way , and attends its own business more directly than the mind with all its boasted subtilty . In the state of nature , without question ...
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