The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... common utility of the nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic , is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims of a suspicious policy . In one ...
... common utility of the nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic , is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims of a suspicious policy . In one ...
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... common de- fence . With their prudence they renounced all appearance of justice . They entered into wars rashly and wantonly . If they were unsuccessful , instead of growing wiser by their misfortune , they threw the whole blame of ...
... common de- fence . With their prudence they renounced all appearance of justice . They entered into wars rashly and wantonly . If they were unsuccessful , instead of growing wiser by their misfortune , they threw the whole blame of ...
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... common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no longer ascended the rostrum ...
... common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no longer ascended the rostrum ...
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... common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice ...
... common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice ...
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... common dress , yet which shock us when they are nakedly represented . But this number , considerable as it is , and the slavery , with all its baseness and horror , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world ...
... common dress , yet which shock us when they are nakedly represented . But this number , considerable as it is , and the slavery , with all its baseness and horror , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world ...
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