"Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious."
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Members of the Parliament of Great BritainPhilosophers from IrelandPoliticians from IrelandPeople from DublinAnglicans
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"Thoughts on French Affairs" (December 1791), in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797), p. 53
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Edmund Burke
1729 – 1797
irischer Staatsmann und Philosoph
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