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sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Read about it in Edmund Burke's book, Science of Cycling.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Edmund Burke beskrev sin bekymring over Den Franske Revolution (i 1789) i bogen "Reflections on the Revolution in France" fra 1790.
, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France: New Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester University Press, 2000), reviewed by Stephen Blakemore.
Edmund Burke's 1774 job description.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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His Vindiciae Gallicae (1791), a spirited reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, was the leading Whig statement in favor of the French Revolution, but from 1796 he grew hostile to French radicalism.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), was one of the first writers to realise the importance of the spontaneous social groupings that people create for themselves as bulwarks defending civil society against despots and revolutionaries.
British statesman Edmund Burke wrote, "Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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Would that we had a few more Tom Paines and few less Edmund Burkes today.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Under the influence of Edmund Burke's critique of the French Revolution, he distrusted appeals to abstract a priori principles such as utility, and adopted instead a careful empiricist approach to moral and political questions.
Take Edmund Burke's aphorism, enthusiastically endorsed by a later generation of fusionist conservatives, that "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
It reminded me of Edmund Burke's surprise in finding that a very great proportion of the French revolutionary assembly were lawyers.
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