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... body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so little attention that the wits of the House J called him the ' dinner - bell . ' Nothing INTRODUCTION . vii.
... body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so little attention that the wits of the House J called him the ' dinner - bell . ' Nothing INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... body as it now stands constituted . ' ' All this , ' Burke proceeds , ' ought to be made as visible to me as the light of the sun , before I should strike off an atom of their charter . ' Conservative as he was , this alone would ...
... body as it now stands constituted . ' ' All this , ' Burke proceeds , ' ought to be made as visible to me as the light of the sun , before I should strike off an atom of their charter . ' Conservative as he was , this alone would ...
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... body of his work , he is remarkable for an exquisite instinct of selection ; which is the polar opposite of what is often called , by a false application of a mathematical term , exhaustiveness - formerly much practised by the Germans ...
... body of his work , he is remarkable for an exquisite instinct of selection ; which is the polar opposite of what is often called , by a false application of a mathematical term , exhaustiveness - formerly much practised by the Germans ...
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... body , were incompatible with the preoccupation of the state - philosopher . As a debater Burke was the inferior of Pitt , and in an increased degree , of Fox . The speeches of Fox , in spite of the indifferent state in which they have ...
... body , were incompatible with the preoccupation of the state - philosopher . As a debater Burke was the inferior of Pitt , and in an increased degree , of Fox . The speeches of Fox , in spite of the indifferent state in which they have ...
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... body and worth to the ' alternate coruscations ' of verbiage in which Johnson delighted . If we imagine Bolingbroke - whom nature intended for a demagogue , and endowed with a natural flow of exquisite and expressive ! language ...
... body and worth to the ' alternate coruscations ' of verbiage in which Johnson delighted . If we imagine Bolingbroke - whom nature intended for a demagogue , and endowed with a natural flow of exquisite and expressive ! language ...
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