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182 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT
STATE OF THE NATION . . ThoughTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT
DISCONTENTS : SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . ! 306 382 SPEECHES
AT MR .
182 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT
STATE OF THE NATION . . ThoughTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT
DISCONTENTS : SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . ! 306 382 SPEECHES
AT MR .
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It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against
the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support
paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a
...
It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against
the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support
paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a
...
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If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found ,
perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord
BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his
Lordship ' s character ...
If some inaccuracies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found ,
perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord
BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his
Lordship ' s character ...
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And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one
man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a
rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ?
And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one
man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a
rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ?
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Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a
body of no more than nineteen ... A republic , as an ancient philosopher has
observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of every species ;
here ...
Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a
body of no more than nineteen ... A republic , as an ancient philosopher has
observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of every species ;
here ...
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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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