The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccura- cies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , per- haps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers ...
... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccura- cies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , per- haps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers ...
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... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
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... divisions , and their foreign wars consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government .NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... divisions , and their foreign wars consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government .NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
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... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of ...
... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of ...
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... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it is ...
... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it is ...
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