The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned under from the beginning . So that , by sure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the ...
... greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned under from the beginning . So that , by sure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the ...
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... greater part of it , in their own persons : their laws were made by themselves , and upon any failure of duty , their officers were accountable to themselves , and to them only . In all appear- ance , they had secured by this method the ...
... greater part of it , in their own persons : their laws were made by themselves , and upon any failure of duty , their officers were accountable to themselves , and to them only . In all appear- ance , they had secured by this method the ...
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... greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious commander who had merited and might demand the ...
... greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious commander who had merited and might demand the ...
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... greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero ...
... greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero ...
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... greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but one neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one stroke , a fourth of ...
... greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but one neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one stroke , a fourth of ...
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