Burke, Select Works: Four letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. New ed. 1892Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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... mankind at large . Man is so formed as to be entirely controlled by instincts arising from intercourse with his neighbours . Severance from his fellow - men means the extinction of those controlling instincts , and the extinction , in ...
... mankind at large . Man is so formed as to be entirely controlled by instincts arising from intercourse with his neighbours . Severance from his fellow - men means the extinction of those controlling instincts , and the extinction , in ...
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... mankind were united in civil society . Burke readily admitted great limitations to this right of making war upon a neighbouring nation for misgovernment . The evil to be attacked must have declared itself by something more than casual ...
... mankind were united in civil society . Burke readily admitted great limitations to this right of making war upon a neighbouring nation for misgovernment . The evil to be attacked must have declared itself by something more than casual ...
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... mankind is yet complete enough , if ever it can be so , to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a State . I am far from denying the operation of such causes but they are ...
... mankind is yet complete enough , if ever it can be so , to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a State . I am far from denying the operation of such causes but they are ...
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... mankind , such an opinion does not deserve refutation as absurd , but pity as insane . I do not know that such an improvident and stupid selfishness deserves the discussion , which , perhaps , I may bestow upon it hereafter . We cannot ...
... mankind , such an opinion does not deserve refutation as absurd , but pity as insane . I do not know that such an improvident and stupid selfishness deserves the discussion , which , perhaps , I may bestow upon it hereafter . We cannot ...
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... mankind , felt that nothing in human affairs was foreign to her . We may consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand , no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a ...
... mankind , felt that nothing in human affairs was foreign to her . We may consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand , no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a ...
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