The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... their imita- tion . I conceived that the true character of those plans would be best collected from the committee ap- pointed to prepare them . I thought that the scheme of their building would be better comprehended in the design.
... their imita- tion . I conceived that the true character of those plans would be best collected from the committee ap- pointed to prepare them . I thought that the scheme of their building would be better comprehended in the design.
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... character , men un- stained with the violence of the times , and with hands not fouled with confiscation and sacrilege : for he chose an Hale for his chief justice , though he abso- lutely refused to take his civic oaths , or to make ...
... character , men un- stained with the violence of the times , and with hands not fouled with confiscation and sacrilege : for he chose an Hale for his chief justice , though he abso- lutely refused to take his civic oaths , or to make ...
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... character . Burnet tells us , that nothing tended to reconcile the English nation to the government of King William so much as the care he took to fill the vacant bishoprics with men who had attracted the public esteem by their learning ...
... character . Burnet tells us , that nothing tended to reconcile the English nation to the government of King William so much as the care he took to fill the vacant bishoprics with men who had attracted the public esteem by their learning ...
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... character been discovered , would have been an object of precaution to provident minds . What if he had erected his fanatic standard for the destruction of the Christian religion in luce Asia , in the midst of the then noonday splendor ...
... character been discovered , would have been an object of precaution to provident minds . What if he had erected his fanatic standard for the destruction of the Christian religion in luce Asia , in the midst of the then noonday splendor ...
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... character were used for the total ruin of those whom the laws had appointed him to protect ? The only offence of this unhappy monarch towards his people was his attempt , under a monarchy , to give them a free Constitution . For this ...
... character were used for the total ruin of those whom the laws had appointed him to protect ? The only offence of this unhappy monarch towards his people was his attempt , under a monarchy , to give them a free Constitution . For this ...
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