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... mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened , and that we owe an implicit reverence to all the institutions of our ancestors , we shall consider these institutions with all that modesty with which we ought to conduct ...
... mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened , and that we owe an implicit reverence to all the institutions of our ancestors , we shall consider these institutions with all that modesty with which we ought to conduct ...
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... mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is ...
... mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is ...
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... 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 mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations , the first effect 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 mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations , the first effect of ...
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... mankind ! ye Or- pheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be it spoken , your regulations have done more mischief in cold blood , than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their ...
... mankind ! ye Or- pheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be it spoken , your regulations have done more mischief in cold blood , than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their ...
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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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