The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... sure that I do not speak of my opposition , which in all circumstances must be so ; but that of men of the greatest wisdom and authority in the nation . Everything proposed against America is supposed of course to be in favour of Great ...
... sure that I do not speak of my opposition , which in all circumstances must be so ; but that of men of the greatest wisdom and authority in the nation . Everything proposed against America is supposed of course to be in favour of Great ...
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... sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of my conduct , that , far from softening the features of such a principle , and thereby removing any part of the popular odium or natural terrors ...
... sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of my conduct , that , far from softening the features of such a principle , and thereby removing any part of the popular odium or natural terrors ...
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... sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less , because they are ...
... sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less , because they are ...
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... harmony with Great Britain . Thinking so , ( perhaps erroneously , ) but being honestly of that opinion , I was at the same time very sure , that the authority , of which I was so jealous 26 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... harmony with Great Britain . Thinking so , ( perhaps erroneously , ) but being honestly of that opinion , I was at the same time very sure , that the authority , of which I was so jealous 26 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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... sure symptom of an ill - conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the ...
... sure symptom of an ill - conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the ...
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