The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography, Том 5Vincent Parke, 1908 "Of this special de luxe Independence edition of the centenary issue of the writings of Thomas Paine there have been printed five hundred numbered copies." This set not numbered. v. 1. Life and appreciations.--v. 2. Common sense; Miscellany.--v. 3. The crisis.--v. 4. The rights of man. v. 1-v. 5. The rights of man. v. 2; Miscellany.--v. 6 the age of reason. v. 1.--v. 7. The age of reason. v. 2; Miscellany.--v. 8-9. Essays, letters, addresses.--v. 10. Essays, letters, poems. |
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... Burke , in speaking of the English rep- resentation , has advanced as bold a challenge as ever was given in the days of chivalry . " Our representation , " says he , " has been found per- fectly adequate to all the purposes for which a ...
... Burke , in speaking of the English rep- resentation , has advanced as bold a challenge as ever was given in the days of chivalry . " Our representation , " says he , " has been found per- fectly adequate to all the purposes for which a ...
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... Burke calls this House , " the great ground and pillar of security to the landed in- terest . " Let us examine this idea . What pillar of security does the landed in- terest require , more than any other interest in the state , or what ...
... Burke calls this House , " the great ground and pillar of security to the landed in- terest . " Let us examine this idea . What pillar of security does the landed in- terest require , more than any other interest in the state , or what ...
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... Burke talk of this House of Peers , as the pillar of the landed interest ? Were that pillar to sink into the earth , the same landed property would continue , and the same plowing , sowing , and reaping would go on . 29 WRITINGS OF ...
... Burke talk of this House of Peers , as the pillar of the landed interest ? Were that pillar to sink into the earth , the same landed property would continue , and the same plowing , sowing , and reaping would go on . 29 WRITINGS OF ...
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... Burke , in his first essay , called aristoc- racy " the Corinthian capital of polished society . " Toward completing the figure , he has now added the pillar , but still the base is wanting ; and whenever a nation chooses to act a ...
... Burke , in his first essay , called aristoc- racy " the Corinthian capital of polished society . " Toward completing the figure , he has now added the pillar , but still the base is wanting ; and whenever a nation chooses to act a ...
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... Burke , in speaking of the aristocratical law of primogeniture , says , It is the standard law of our landed inheritance ; and which , without question has a tendency , and I think , " continues he , " a happy tendency , to preserve a ...
... Burke , in speaking of the aristocratical law of primogeniture , says , It is the standard law of our landed inheritance ; and which , without question has a tendency , and I think , " continues he , " a happy tendency , to preserve a ...
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