The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the ... politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory . How far mere nature would have carried us , we may ...
... politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the ... politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory . How far mere nature would have carried us , we may ...
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... politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an oc- casion . I can never believe , that any ... political craft , nor learned sophistry , can entirely expel from our breasts . A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 77 21.
... politicians . For my part , I say what a plain man would say on such an oc- casion . I can never believe , that any ... political craft , nor learned sophistry , can entirely expel from our breasts . A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 77 21.
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... political writers under the name of democracy . Here the people transacted all public business , or the greater part of it , in their own persons : their laws were made by themselves , and upon any failure of duty , their officers were ...
... political writers under the name of democracy . Here the people transacted all public business , or the greater part of it , in their own persons : their laws were made by themselves , and upon any failure of duty , their officers were ...
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... politicians , and for natural reason against all three . When the world is in a fitter temper than it is at present ... politics make suffi- cient discoveries concerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all ...
... politicians , and for natural reason against all three . When the world is in a fitter temper than it is at present ... politics make suffi- cient discoveries concerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all ...
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... political so- ciety . You will not fail to show how the errors of the several simple modes are corrected by a mixture of all of them , and a proper balance of the several powers in such a state . I confess , my Lord , that this has been ...
... political so- ciety . You will not fail to show how the errors of the several simple modes are corrected by a mixture of all of them , and a proper balance of the several powers in such a state . I confess , my Lord , that this has been ...
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