The Works of Edmund Burke, Volum 1C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... virtue , and of all government , sapped with great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be usefully exerted for the noblest purposes ...
... virtue , and of all government , sapped with great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be usefully exerted for the noblest purposes ...
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... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by explod- ing his providence , and ...
... virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by explod- ing his providence , and ...
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... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are truth ...
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... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many ac- counts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in those early periods when the race of mankind ...
... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many ac- counts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and in those early periods when the race of mankind ...
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... virtue . Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the under- standing . And to prevent the least hope of ...
... virtue . Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the under- standing . And to prevent the least hope of ...
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