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Page 338
... reason or principle . Fox was a reasoner . Lord Chatham was an orator . Burke was both a reasoner and a poet ; and was therefore still farther removed from that conformity with the vulgar notions and mechanical feelings of mankind ...
... reason or principle . Fox was a reasoner . Lord Chatham was an orator . Burke was both a reasoner and a poet ; and was therefore still farther removed from that conformity with the vulgar notions and mechanical feelings of mankind ...
Page 421
... reason rul'd , or wisdom weav'd the web . But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds , Which turn to rain of late repent by course of changed winds , The top of hope supposed , the root of rule will be , And fruitless all their ...
... reason rul'd , or wisdom weav'd the web . But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds , Which turn to rain of late repent by course of changed winds , The top of hope supposed , the root of rule will be , And fruitless all their ...
Page 494
... reason , our pernicious inclinations always seek from our own ingenuity , some specious and imposing attire . cunning pretext or a sophistical reason is found , and we persuade ourselves , by degrees , that a crime is not only free from ...
... reason , our pernicious inclinations always seek from our own ingenuity , some specious and imposing attire . cunning pretext or a sophistical reason is found , and we persuade ourselves , by degrees , that a crime is not only free from ...
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