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The good offices done by one nation to its neighbour ; l the support given in
public distress ; the relief afforded in general calamity ; the protection granted in
emergent danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very
...
The good offices done by one nation to its neighbour ; l the support given in
public distress ; the relief afforded in general calamity ; the protection granted in
emergent danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very
...
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This spot happened , it matters not here by what means , to become at several
times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if
other wellknown and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first ...
This spot happened , it matters not here by what means , to become at several
times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if
other wellknown and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first ...
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Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us
also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this
day , the inventions of men have been sharpening and improving the mystery of ...
Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us
also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this
day , the inventions of men have been sharpening and improving the mystery of ...
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But the scene is changed as you come homeward , and atheism or treason may
be the names given in Britain , to what would be reason and truth if asserted of
China . I submit to the condition , and though I have a notorious advantage before
...
But the scene is changed as you come homeward , and atheism or treason may
be the names given in Britain , to what would be reason and truth if asserted of
China . I submit to the condition , and though I have a notorious advantage before
...
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We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide , which
Providence thought sufficient for our condition , our own natural reason , which
rejecting both in human and Divine things , we have given our necks to the yoke
of political ...
We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide , which
Providence thought sufficient for our condition , our own natural reason , which
rejecting both in human and Divine things , we have given our necks to the yoke
of political ...
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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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