The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction 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 ...
... forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction 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 ...
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... force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the ...
... force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the ...
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Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four ...
Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four ...
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... force to prove that it is an insufficient guide to them in the conduct of their lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that ...
... force to prove that it is an insufficient guide to them in the conduct of their lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that ...
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... force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in political society , a rich man ...
... force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in political society , a rich man ...
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