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Page 34
Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much
exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they
stand extremely close . In the second place , the several constituent parts having
...
Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much
exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they
stand extremely close . In the second place , the several constituent parts having
...
Page 38
In a law - suit the question is , who has a right to a certain house 1 or farm ? And
this question is daily determined , not upon the evidence of the right , but upon
the observance or neglect of some form of words in use with the gentlemen of the
...
In a law - suit the question is , who has a right to a certain house 1 or farm ? And
this question is daily determined , not upon the evidence of the right , but upon
the observance or neglect of some form of words in use with the gentlemen of the
...
Page 41
... as you have frequently lamented the miseries derived to us from artificial law ,
and your candour is the more to be admired and applauded in this , as your
Lordship ' s noble house has derived its wealth and its honour from that
profession .
... as you have frequently lamented the miseries derived to us from artificial law ,
and your candour is the more to be admired and applauded in this , as your
Lordship ' s noble house has derived its wealth and its honour from that
profession .
Page 95
... and his setting mankind åt defiance ; otherwise the description of such an
animal could have had nothing noble in it . Who hath loosed ( says he ) the
bands of the wild ass ? whose house I have made the wilderness , and the
barren land his ...
... and his setting mankind åt defiance ; otherwise the description of such an
animal could have had nothing noble in it . Who hath loosed ( says he ) the
bands of the wild ass ? whose house I have made the wilderness , and the
barren land his ...
Page 121
... than for an architect to model his performance by the human figure , since no
two things can have less resemblance or analogy , than a man and . a house , or
temple : do we need to observe , that their purposes are entirely different ? What I
...
... than for an architect to model his performance by the human figure , since no
two things can have less resemblance or analogy , than a man and . a house , or
temple : do we need to observe , that their purposes are entirely different ? What I
...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Vindication of Natural Society. Essay on the sublime and the beautiful Bohn's British classics Volume 1 of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
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