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Page 8
It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we
know , and the little liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something
fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive ...
It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we
know , and the little liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something
fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive ...
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The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder
shocks than it had ever felt before ; and , through the chinks and breaches of our
prison , we see such glimmerings of light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty ,
as ...
The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder
shocks than it had ever felt before ; and , through the chinks and breaches of our
prison , we see such glimmerings of light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty ,
as ...
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It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural liberty and natural religion
are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we
have implanted in us by Providence , ideas , axioms , rules , of what is pious , just
...
It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural liberty and natural religion
are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we
have implanted in us by Providence , ideas , axioms , rules , of what is pious , just
...
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And in those few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually
in a tottering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of
despotism , which at last swallows up every species of government . The manner
of ...
And in those few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually
in a tottering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of
despotism , which at last swallows up every species of government . The manner
of ...
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... people are more miserable , as they seem on the verge of liberty , from which
they are for ever debar . red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a
vain shadow of bappiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection
.
... people are more miserable , as they seem on the verge of liberty , from which
they are for ever debar . red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a
vain shadow of bappiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection
.
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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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