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Page 12
... in so distant countries , feel experimentally how severe a scourge Providence
intends for the human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and
arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know
...
... in so distant countries , feel experimentally how severe a scourge Providence
intends for the human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and
arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know
...
Page 13
... twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had
he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made
for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction .
... twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had
he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made
for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction .
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... and ravaged all to the north - east and west , to the remotest parts of Persia on
one hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all
the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might
...
... and ravaged all to the north - east and west , to the remotest parts of Persia on
one hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all
the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might
...
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... undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few
deaths . 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 ...
... undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few
deaths . 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 ...
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An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they
devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only
use he made of this power , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery .
Accident ...
An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they
devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only
use he made of this power , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery .
Accident ...
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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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