The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... present times makes " it very difficult for us to talk upon certain 66 subjects in which Parliamentary order is in- " volved . It is difficult to speak of them with " regularity , or to be silent with dignity and " wisdom : All our ...
... present times makes " it very difficult for us to talk upon certain 66 subjects in which Parliamentary order is in- " volved . It is difficult to speak of them with " regularity , or to be silent with dignity and " wisdom : All our ...
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... present generation , and before a long , long posterity . My Lords , I should be ashamed , if at this moment I attempted to use any sort of rhetorical blandishments whatever . Such artifices would neither neither be suitable to the Body ...
... present generation , and before a long , long posterity . My Lords , I should be ashamed , if at this moment I attempted to use any sort of rhetorical blandishments whatever . Such artifices would neither neither be suitable to the Body ...
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... present , in order to remove extraneous im- pressions from your minds . For admitting that your Lordships are the best judges , as I well know that you are , yet I cannot say that you are not men , and that matter of this kind , however ...
... present , in order to remove extraneous im- pressions from your minds . For admitting that your Lordships are the best judges , as I well know that you are , yet I cannot say that you are not men , and that matter of this kind , however ...
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... present ; but they knew what they were doing , and they were resolved to use no language but what their ancestors had used , and to suffer no insolence which their ancestors would not have suffered . We tread in their steps ; we pursue ...
... present ; but they knew what they were doing , and they were resolved to use no language but what their ancestors had used , and to suffer no insolence which their ancestors would not have suffered . We tread in their steps ; we pursue ...
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... presents , What was his de- meanour ? Did he require his Counsel not " to let down the dignity of his defence ? " No. That Lord Bacon , whose least distinction was , that he was a Peer of England , a Lord High Chancellor , and the son ...
... presents , What was his de- meanour ? Did he require his Counsel not " to let down the dignity of his defence ? " No. That Lord Bacon , whose least distinction was , that he was a Peer of England , a Lord High Chancellor , and the son ...
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