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... whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ...
... whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ...
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... whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . I do not pretend to exactness ; therefore , for the sake of a general view , I shall lay together all those actually slain in ...
... whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . I do not pretend to exactness ; therefore , for the sake of a general view , I shall lay together all those actually slain in ...
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... whole might be heightened , by an affecting description of the horrors that attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon ...
... whole might be heightened , by an affecting description of the horrors that attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon ...
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... whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical proceedings of an aristocracy are more intoler- able than the very excesses of a despotism , and , in general , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have pursued ...
... whole nation . In short , the regular and methodical proceedings of an aristocracy are more intoler- able than the very excesses of a despotism , and , in general , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have pursued ...
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Edmund Burke. Thus , my Lord , we have pursued aristocracy through its whole progress ; we have seen the seeds , the growth , and the fruit . It could boast none of the advantages of a des- potism , miserable as those advantages were ...
Edmund Burke. Thus , my Lord , we have pursued aristocracy through its whole progress ; we have seen the seeds , the growth , and the fruit . It could boast none of the advantages of a des- potism , miserable as those advantages were ...
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