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... of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of
government , and that specious arguments might be used against those things
which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It
is an ...
... of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of
government , and that specious arguments might be used against those things
which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It
is an ...
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... the troops employed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must
have cost two millions of souls on her part ; and it is not unreasonable to judge
that the country which was the seat of the war must have been an equal sufferer .
... the troops employed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must
have cost two millions of souls on her part ; and it is not unreasonable to judge
that the country which was the seat of the war must have been an equal sufferer .
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I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor
upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important ,
and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor
upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important ,
and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
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The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration , being elated with
some flashes of success which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their
own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had associated with them for
their ...
The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration , being elated with
some flashes of success which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their
own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had associated with them for
their ...
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This spirit entirely reverses all the principles which a benevolent nature has
erected within us ; all honesty , all equal justice , and even the ties of natural
society , the natural affections . In a word , my Lord , we have all seen , and , if
any ...
This spirit entirely reverses all the principles which a benevolent nature has
erected within us ; all honesty , all equal justice , and even the ties of natural
society , the natural affections . In a word , my Lord , we have all seen , and , if
any ...
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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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