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The contemplation of the past vicissitudes of France suggested that brilliant
historical phantasmagoria with which the volume opens . In the mutable scheme
of human events , all things were possible . That terrible and unnatural spectre
which ...
The contemplation of the past vicissitudes of France suggested that brilliant
historical phantasmagoria with which the volume opens . In the mutable scheme
of human events , all things were possible . That terrible and unnatural spectre
which ...
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... nation that shows any signs of this betrayal of its inherited trusts is on the high
road to dissolution . 1 Select Works of Burke , Vol . II . p . xl . ( Second Edition . )
But how far does this analogy between the human individual xlii INTRODUCTION
...
... nation that shows any signs of this betrayal of its inherited trusts is on the high
road to dissolution . 1 Select Works of Burke , Vol . II . p . xl . ( Second Edition . )
But how far does this analogy between the human individual xlii INTRODUCTION
...
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But how far does this analogy between the human individual and the body politic
hold good ? Limits it unquestionably has . Those passions which sway alike the
state and the individual have the former under less thorough control . Fear is less
...
But how far does this analogy between the human individual and the body politic
hold good ? Limits it unquestionably has . Those passions which sway alike the
state and the individual have the former under less thorough control . Fear is less
...
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Here was a power more barbarous and anarchic , more destructive , in its policy
and in the tendency of its whole being , to the human race , than even the
monstrous despotism of Turkey . It enjoyed a less advantageous position . It was
a new ...
Here was a power more barbarous and anarchic , more destructive , in its policy
and in the tendency of its whole being , to the human race , than even the
monstrous despotism of Turkey . It enjoyed a less advantageous position . It was
a new ...
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But when to return ? Not to lose ourselves in the infinite void of the conjectural
world , our business is with what is likely to be affected for the better or the worse
by the wisdom or weakness of our plans . In all speculations upon men and
human ...
But when to return ? Not to lose ourselves in the infinite void of the conjectural
world , our business is with what is likely to be affected for the better or the worse
by the wisdom or weakness of our plans . In all speculations upon men and
human ...
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