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... all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least
in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found
the landmarks of science precisely in their former places : and they thought they ...
... all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least
in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found
the landmarks of science precisely in their former places : and they thought they ...
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In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most
wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my
philosophical writings , mean to object to the piety , truth , and perfection of our
most ...
In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most
wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my
philosophical writings , mean to object to the piety , truth , and perfection of our
most ...
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have observed before , the chronology of these remote times . is extremely
uncertain , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his
species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ,
and ...
have observed before , the chronology of these remote times . is extremely
uncertain , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his
species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ,
and ...
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It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the
Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four millions of its subjects ; to say
nothing of its other wars , and the losses sustained in them . These were their
losses ...
It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the
Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four millions of its subjects ; to say
nothing of its other wars , and the losses sustained in them . These were their
losses ...
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This at least was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest accounts
of them to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their
intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of ...
This at least was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest accounts
of them to their absorption into the Roman empire , we cannot judge that their
intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of ...
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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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