The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
... never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the ...
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... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
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... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise ex- erted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
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... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce anything in that immense ...
... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce anything in that immense ...
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... never any remission ; all manner of abuses and villanies in officers remain unpunished ; the greatest frauds and robberies in the public revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into ...
... never any remission ; all manner of abuses and villanies in officers remain unpunished ; the greatest frauds and robberies in the public revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into ...
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