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Page 22
But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the
understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever
surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their french account in
keeping him ...
But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the
understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever
surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their french account in
keeping him ...
Page 58
... producing anything absolutely new ; it can only vary the disposition of those
ideas which it has received from the senses . Now the imagination is the most
extensive province of pleasure and pain , as it is the region of our fears and our
hopes ...
... producing anything absolutely new ; it can only vary the disposition of those
ideas which it has received from the senses . Now the imagination is the most
extensive province of pleasure and pain , as it is the region of our fears and our
hopes ...
Page 97
I hope , in what I am going to say , I sball avoid presumption , where it is almost
impossible for any mortal to speak with strict propriety . I say then , that whilst we
consider the Godhead merely as he is an object of the understanding , which ...
I hope , in what I am going to say , I sball avoid presumption , where it is almost
impossible for any mortal to speak with strict propriety . I say then , that whilst we
consider the Godhead merely as he is an object of the understanding , which ...
Page 115
But before I proceed further , I hope it will not be thought amiss , if I lay down the
rules which governed me in this inquiry , and which have misled me in it , if I have
gone astray . 1 . If two bodies produce the same or a similar effect on the mind ...
But before I proceed further , I hope it will not be thought amiss , if I lay down the
rules which governed me in this inquiry , and which have misled me in it , if I have
gone astray . 1 . If two bodies produce the same or a similar effect on the mind ...
Page 187
Whilst persons more equal to this business may be engaged in affairs of greater
moment , I hope I shall be excused , if , in a few hours of a time not very important
, and from such materials as I have by me , ( more than enough however for this ...
Whilst persons more equal to this business may be engaged in affairs of greater
moment , I hope I shall be excused , if , in a few hours of a time not very important
, and from such materials as I have by me , ( more than enough however for this ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | 5, revised |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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