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By these we persuaded ourselves we might know with some certainty upon what
ground we stood . But lo ! differences arose upon the sense and interpretation of
these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were ...
By these we persuaded ourselves we might know with some certainty upon what
ground we stood . But lo ! differences arose upon the sense and interpretation of
these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were ...
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The lower part broken and ground down by the most cruel oppression ; and the
rich by their artificial method of life bringing worse evils on themselves , than their
tyranny could possibly inflict on those below them . Very different is the prospect ...
The lower part broken and ground down by the most cruel oppression ; and the
rich by their artificial method of life bringing worse evils on themselves , than their
tyranny could possibly inflict on those below them . Very different is the prospect ...
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... offences against manners , the trampling upon geography ; for he knows
nothing of geography and chronology , and he has never examined the grounds
of probability . He perhaps reads of a shipwreck on the coast of Bohemia : ON
TASTE .
... offences against manners , the trampling upon geography ; for he knows
nothing of geography and chronology , and he has never examined the grounds
of probability . He perhaps reads of a shipwreck on the coast of Bohemia : ON
TASTE .
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All this is requisite sto form taste , and the ground - work of all these is the same
in the human mind ; for as the senses are the great originals of all our ideas , and
consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncertain and arbitrary , the ...
All this is requisite sto form taste , and the ground - work of all these is the same
in the human mind ; for as the senses are the great originals of all our ideas , and
consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncertain and arbitrary , the ...
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... which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must
have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the
argument is carried on , the grounds discovered , the objections raised and
answered ...
... which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must
have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the
argument is carried on , the grounds discovered , the objections raised and
answered ...
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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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