The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
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... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
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... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
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... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indi- gence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of everything to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indi- gence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of everything to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
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... persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery ...
... persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery ...
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