The Life of Edmund BurkeG. Cawthorn; sold by Richardson, 1798 - 592 páginas |
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... duty , and inculcate virtuous con- duct . Hence history , which shews the con- nection between principle and action , action and consequence , derives its chief utility . Not real history only , but its imitator , poetry , though ...
... duty , and inculcate virtuous con- duct . Hence history , which shews the con- nection between principle and action , action and consequence , derives its chief utility . Not real history only , but its imitator , poetry , though ...
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... duty to state facts where they can be known ; and , where they cannot , the most pro- bable and generally received opinions . I am assured by Dr. Lawrence , that Burke's grand- father possessed an estate of three thousand a year , near ...
... duty to state facts where they can be known ; and , where they cannot , the most pro- bable and generally received opinions . I am assured by Dr. Lawrence , that Burke's grand- father possessed an estate of three thousand a year , near ...
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... duty of patriotism to support , when op- pressed , a man , whose private profligacy they abhorred . Perhaps they might reason on the principle so ably maintained by Cæsar , in his speech on the discovery of Catiline's conspiracy , that ...
... duty of patriotism to support , when op- pressed , a man , whose private profligacy they abhorred . Perhaps they might reason on the principle so ably maintained by Cæsar , in his speech on the discovery of Catiline's conspiracy , that ...
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... however , was directed more to the productiveness of the duty than the policy of the taxation . In devising various schemes of revenue , it appeared to him that + > 2 # ៥. 64 ។ America , which had hitherto been [ 63 ]
... however , was directed more to the productiveness of the duty than the policy of the taxation . In devising various schemes of revenue , it appeared to him that + > 2 # ៥. 64 ។ America , which had hitherto been [ 63 ]
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... duty . His di- ligence was also employed in preparatory pub- lic speaking . He frequented the Robinhood society , to which many men of parts and in- . formation then resorted . He practised there the replies and contentions of eloquence ...
... duty . His di- ligence was also employed in preparatory pub- lic speaking . He frequented the Robinhood society , to which many men of parts and in- . formation then resorted . He practised there the replies and contentions of eloquence ...
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