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IN A LETTER TO LORD * * * * , BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . PREFACE .
BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had A VINDICATION
OF NATURAL Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind
from ...
IN A LETTER TO LORD * * * * , BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . PREFACE .
BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had A VINDICATION
OF NATURAL Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind
from ...
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BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had appeared , great
things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of
action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure ...
BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had appeared , great
things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of
action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure ...
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Such are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and
fully avowed , are found to prevail throughout the writings of Lord BOLINGBROKE
; and such are the reasonings which this noble writer and several others have ...
Such are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and
fully avowed , are found to prevail throughout the writings of Lord BOLINGBROKE
; and such are the reasonings which this noble writer and several others have ...
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I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke ' s Reports that pleased me very much ,
though I do not know from whence he has taken it : “ Interdum fucata falsitas , (
says he , ) in multis est probabilior , et sæpe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem .
I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke ' s Reports that pleased me very much ,
though I do not know from whence he has taken it : “ Interdum fucata falsitas , (
says he , ) in multis est probabilior , et sæpe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem .
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If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found ,
perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord
BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his
Lordship ' s character ...
If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found ,
perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord
BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his
Lordship ' s character ...
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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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