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Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by
exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such
are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and fully
avowed ...
Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by
exploding his providence , and insisting that he is neither just nor good ? Such
are the doctrines which , sometimes concealed , sometimes openly and fully
avowed ...
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He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion to the wretchedness and
slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample
on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he
...
He finds that these gratifications increase in proportion to the wretchedness and
slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample
on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he
...
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... instead of serving for mutual defence , serves only to increase the danger .
Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much
exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they
stand ...
... instead of serving for mutual defence , serves only to increase the danger .
Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much
exercised , where the houses are built of combustible materials , and where they
stand ...
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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 proportion have we
increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate
into the ...
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 proportion have we
increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate
into the ...
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The confusion increased , the mist thickened , until it could be discovered no
longer what was allowed or forbidden , what things were in property , and what
common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian ...
The confusion increased , the mist thickened , until it could be discovered no
longer what was allowed or forbidden , what things were in property , and what
common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian ...
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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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