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In the midst of these pleasing expectations , the works themselves at last
appeared in full body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for
new discoveries in the mysteries of nature ; those who expected something which
might ...
In the midst of these pleasing expectations , the works themselves at last
appeared in full body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for
new discoveries in the mysteries of nature ; those who expected something which
might ...
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It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little .
It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to
itself , were the best and surest guide . It finds out imaginary beings prescribing ...
It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little .
It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to
itself , were the best and surest guide . It finds out imaginary beings prescribing ...
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Man found a considerable advantage by this union of many persons to form one
family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an
union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond
of ...
Man found a considerable advantage by this union of many persons to form one
family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an
union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond
of ...
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A body politic , whilst it retains its authority , never changes its maxims ; a
despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice
natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be as
lovely the ...
A body politic , whilst it retains its authority , never changes its maxims ; a
despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice
natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be as
lovely the ...
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The ruling nobility are no less afraid of one another , than they are of the people ;
and , for that reason , politically enervate their own body by the same effeminate
Tuxury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every ...
The ruling nobility are no less afraid of one another , than they are of the people ;
and , for that reason , politically enervate their own body by the same effeminate
Tuxury by which they corrupt their subjects . They are impoverished by every ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | 5, revised |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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