The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... kingdom . We see that in future you are to be de- stroyed with more form and regularity . This is not peace it is only the introduction of a sort of disci- pline in their hostility . Their tyranny is complete in their justice ; and ...
... kingdom . We see that in future you are to be de- stroyed with more form and regularity . This is not peace it is only the introduction of a sort of disci- pline in their hostility . Their tyranny is complete in their justice ; and ...
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... kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his throne , -a monarch who , at the very outset , without force , even without solicitation , had given to his people such a Magna Charta of privileges as ...
... kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his throne , -a monarch who , at the very outset , without force , even without solicitation , had given to his people such a Magna Charta of privileges as ...
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... kingdom . What must be the prudence of those who could think , in the then known temper of the people of Paris , of assembling the States at a place situated as Versailles ? The Parliament of Paris did worse than to inspire this blind ...
... kingdom . What must be the prudence of those who could think , in the then known temper of the people of Paris , of assembling the States at a place situated as Versailles ? The Parliament of Paris did worse than to inspire this blind ...
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... kingdom , he would only have cause to lament that it possessed qualities fitted to perpet- uate the memory of his offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his escaping the reproaches of pos- terity . But , after receiving the ...
... kingdom , he would only have cause to lament that it possessed qualities fitted to perpet- uate the memory of his offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his escaping the reproaches of pos- terity . But , after receiving the ...
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... kingdom , -to in- corporate themselves for the utter overthrow of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favor of the new Constitution and of the modern usages of the ...
... kingdom , -to in- corporate themselves for the utter overthrow of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favor of the new Constitution and of the modern usages of the ...
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