The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least , in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science ...
... passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least , in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science ...
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... passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this an- cient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ni- nus , but that he made immense and rapid conquests , which doubtless were not compassed ...
... passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this an- cient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ni- nus , but that he made immense and rapid conquests , which doubtless were not compassed ...
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... passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical exact- ness , to give your Lordship some feeling of the effects of political society . I charge the whole of these effects on polit- ical society ...
... passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical exact- ness , to give your Lordship some feeling of the effects of political society . I charge the whole of these effects on polit- ical society ...
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... , never fails to work a salutary effect . This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the un- possessed passions of mankind , appears on other occasions . The very name of a politician , a statesman , 22 A VINDICATION OF.
... , never fails to work a salutary effect . This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the un- possessed passions of mankind , appears on other occasions . The very name of a politician , a statesman , 22 A VINDICATION OF.
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... passion and interest to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and shocking out- rages upon mankind . Their persons become victims of his suspicions . The ...
... passion and interest to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and shocking out- rages upon mankind . Their persons become victims of his suspicions . The ...
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