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I . A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL . POLITICAL MISCELLANIES . LONDON : HENRY G . BOHN , YORK
STREET , COVENT GARDEN . MDCCCLIV . to Burtor . 9o . 79 u KD 60978 ,
I . A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL . POLITICAL MISCELLANIES . LONDON : HENRY G . BOHN , YORK
STREET , COVENT GARDEN . MDCCCLIV . to Burtor . 9o . 79 u KD 60978 ,
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... caused the grief , did not , at the same time , administer the comfort . On
considering political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I
have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did
ever.
... caused the grief , did not , at the same time , administer the comfort . On
considering political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I
have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did
ever.
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This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states ,
civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or
restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ,
and ...
This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states ,
civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or
restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ,
and ...
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War is the matter which fills all history , and consequently the only , or almost the
only , view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile
shape ; and the only actions to which we have always seen , and still see , all of
them ...
War is the matter which fills all history , and consequently the only , or almost the
only , view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile
shape ; and the only actions to which we have always seen , and still see , all of
them ...
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I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical
exactness , to give your Lordship some feeling of the effects of political society . I
charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I ...
I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical
exactness , to give your Lordship some feeling of the effects of political society . I
charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | 5, revised |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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