The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet this species of government , so justly condemned , and so generally detested , is what in- finitely the greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned ...
... carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet this species of government , so justly condemned , and so generally detested , is what in- finitely the greater part of mankind groan under , and have groaned ...
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... carrying on , the question is , Who has a right to exercise this or that function of it , or what men have power to keep their offices in any function ? Whilst this contest continues , and whilst the balance in any sort continues , it ...
... carrying on , the question is , Who has a right to exercise this or that function of it , or what men have power to keep their offices in any function ? Whilst this contest continues , and whilst the balance in any sort continues , it ...
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... carried on , the grounds discovered , the objections raised and answered , and the conclusions drawn from premises , with a quickness alto- gether as great as the taste can be supposed to work with ; and yet where nothing but plain ...
... carried on , the grounds discovered , the objections raised and answered , and the conclusions drawn from premises , with a quickness alto- gether as great as the taste can be supposed to work with ; and yet where nothing but plain ...
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... carried from this state into a state of actual pleasure , it does not appear necessary that I should pass through the medium of any sort of pain . If in such a state of indifference , or ease , or tranquillity , or call it what you ...
... carried from this state into a state of actual pleasure , it does not appear necessary that I should pass through the medium of any sort of pain . If in such a state of indifference , or ease , or tranquillity , or call it what you ...
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... carry this proposition yet a step farther . We shall venture to propose , that pain and pleasure are not only not necessarily dependent for their existence on their mu- tual diminution or removal , but that , in reality , the diminu ...
... carry this proposition yet a step farther . We shall venture to propose , that pain and pleasure are not only not necessarily dependent for their existence on their mu- tual diminution or removal , but that , in reality , the diminu ...
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