The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
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... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
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... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
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... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
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... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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