The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... means every sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans ...
... means every sort of state , how- ever constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans ...
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... 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 small ... means of destroying have been A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... 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 small ... means of destroying have been A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
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... means , to become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well- known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first settling of the Jews here was attended by ...
... means , to become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well- known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first settling of the Jews here was attended by ...
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... means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means adequate to such an end ; many scratches , many bruises , undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which ...
... means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means adequate to such an end ; many scratches , many bruises , undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which ...
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... means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state in- quisition . Here you see a people deprived of all rational freedom , and tyrannized over by about two thousand men ; and yet this body ...
... means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state in- quisition . Here you see a people deprived of all rational freedom , and tyrannized over by about two thousand men ; and yet this body ...
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