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... sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could suc- ceed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they ...
... sort of sullen labor , in which , if the author could suc- ceed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they ...
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... sort of pleasing sur- prise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
... sort of pleasing sur- prise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
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... sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of ...
... sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of ...
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Contents
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An Abridgment of English History 1757 | 76 |
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register | 104 |
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration 1766 | 117 |
Speech on Conciliation 1775 | 176 |
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777 | 223 |
IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION | 251 |
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland 1782 | 274 |
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe 1792 | 288 |
A Letter to Richard Burke 1793 | 320 |
A Letter to William Smith 1795 | 330 |
Speech on Economical Reform 1780 | 341 |
Speech on the Middlesex Election 1771 | 363 |
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