Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Or, An Impartial Review of His Private Life, His Public Conduct ...For the author, 1797 - 383 páginas |
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... moft , the flaughter of mankind , as he states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to draw his inferences from these facts , and pretends to charge the greatest part of so ...
... moft , the flaughter of mankind , as he states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to draw his inferences from these facts , and pretends to charge the greatest part of so ...
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... moft fimple , fo it is infinitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power and in thofe few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering fituation , and makes greater ...
... moft fimple , fo it is infinitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power and in thofe few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering fituation , and makes greater ...
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... moft infinuating modefty , propofing his notions " merely as probable conjectures , " he endeavoured to cftablish a new standard for deciding on the most admired pro- ductions of nature and art ; -to point out and dispel the confusion ...
... moft infinuating modefty , propofing his notions " merely as probable conjectures , " he endeavoured to cftablish a new standard for deciding on the most admired pro- ductions of nature and art ; -to point out and dispel the confusion ...
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... moft captivating books in our language . Mr. BURKE admired the diversity of their ta- lents , but did not lofe in that admiration the confcioufness of his own . His emotions on reading the works of HUME and Ro- BERTSON very much ...
... moft captivating books in our language . Mr. BURKE admired the diversity of their ta- lents , but did not lofe in that admiration the confcioufness of his own . His emotions on reading the works of HUME and Ro- BERTSON very much ...
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... moft ferious difcuffions . It cannot be a matter of just surprise , much lefs of reproach , that low images and ftrokes of vulgar pleafantry were fometimes found in the exuberance of his enter- taining remarks . Instead of expreffing an ...
... moft ferious difcuffions . It cannot be a matter of just surprise , much lefs of reproach , that low images and ftrokes of vulgar pleafantry were fometimes found in the exuberance of his enter- taining remarks . Instead of expreffing an ...
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