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The writers against religion , whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful
never to set up any of their own . If some inaccuracies in calculation , in
reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as
faults by ...
The writers against religion , whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful
never to set up any of their own . If some inaccuracies in calculation , in
reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as
faults by ...
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... and artificial laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of
religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive
government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in
spite ...
... and artificial laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of
religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive
government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in
spite ...
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What an Aceldama , what a field of blood , Sicily has been in ancient times ,
whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and
tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks ,
the ...
What an Aceldama , what a field of blood , Sicily has been in ancient times ,
whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and
tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks ,
the ...
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I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the
suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part
of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and
that ...
I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the
suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part
of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and
that ...
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He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those
murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince
' s government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and ...
He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those
murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince
' s government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and ...
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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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