The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent con- sequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent con- sequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
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... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
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... true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
... true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
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... true of the inferior officers of this 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 ...
... true of the inferior officers of this 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 ...
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... true , that a man of superior force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in ...
... true , that a man of superior force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in ...
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