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If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been
virtually pardoned , the cartel ( whether avowed or understood ) is a cruel fraud ;
for you have received the life of a man , and you ought to return a life for it , or
there ...
If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been
virtually pardoned , the cartel ( whether avowed or understood ) is a cruel fraud ;
for you have received the life of a man , and you ought to return a life for it , or
there ...
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Thus , by degrees , that artful softening of all arbitrary power , the alleged
infrequency or narrow extent of its operation , will be received as a sort of
aphorism - and Mr . Hume will not be singular in telling us that the felicity of
mankind is no more ...
Thus , by degrees , that artful softening of all arbitrary power , the alleged
infrequency or narrow extent of its operation , will be received as a sort of
aphorism - and Mr . Hume will not be singular in telling us that the felicity of
mankind is no more ...
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But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and
protecting connexion , that those who have conferred favours obtain influence ;
and from the foresight of future events can persuade men , who have received ...
But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and
protecting connexion , that those who have conferred favours obtain influence ;
and from the foresight of future events can persuade men , who have received ...
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... purposes , and received by the malignant credulity of envy and ignorance ,
which is , that the men who act upon the public stage are all alike ; all equally
corrupt ; all influenced by no other views than the sordid lure of salary and
pension .
... purposes , and received by the malignant credulity of envy and ignorance ,
which is , that the men who act upon the public stage are all alike ; all equally
corrupt ; all influenced by no other views than the sordid lure of salary and
pension .
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others is not always folly to ourselves , I should have contented myself with
receiving them in a cold and silent acquiescence . Separately considered , they
are matters of no very great importance . But they aim , however imperfectly , at a
right ...
others is not always folly to ourselves , I should have contented myself with
receiving them in a cold and silent acquiescence . Separately considered , they
are matters of no very great importance . But they aim , however imperfectly , at a
right ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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