The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... give a daily proof of the delusion of their promises and the falsehood of their professions . Had I followed all these changes , my letter would have been only a ga- zette of their wanderings , a journal of their march from error to ...
... give a daily proof of the delusion of their promises and the falsehood of their professions . Had I followed all these changes , my letter would have been only a ga- zette of their wanderings , a journal of their march from error to ...
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... give the fullest credit to the most deceitful of men , - that is , when they make declarations of hostility against us . I find that some persons entertain other hopes , which I confess appear more specious than those by which at first ...
... give the fullest credit to the most deceitful of men , - that is , when they make declarations of hostility against us . I find that some persons entertain other hopes , which I confess appear more specious than those by which at first ...
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... give people possession ; but they always keep them in hope . Your state doctors do not so much as pretend that any good whatsoever has hitherto been derived from their operations , or that the public has pros- pered in any one instance ...
... give people possession ; but they always keep them in hope . Your state doctors do not so much as pretend that any good whatsoever has hitherto been derived from their operations , or that the public has pros- pered in any one instance ...
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... give the salutation of peace ( Salam ) to any of us , nor make any pact with any Christian nation beyond a truce , if this be done in favor of the Turk , shall it be thought either impol- itic or unjust or uncharitable to employ the ...
... give the salutation of peace ( Salam ) to any of us , nor make any pact with any Christian nation beyond a truce , if this be done in favor of the Turk , shall it be thought either impol- itic or unjust or uncharitable to employ the ...
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... give them a free Constitution . For this , by an ex- ample hitherto unheard of in the world , he has been deposed . It might well disgrace sovereigns to take part with a deposed tyrant . It would suppose in them a vicious sympathy . But ...
... give them a free Constitution . For this , by an ex- ample hitherto unheard of in the world , he has been deposed . It might well disgrace sovereigns to take part with a deposed tyrant . It would suppose in them a vicious sympathy . But ...
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