The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Scholarly Press, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... England as included in Europe ) from a truly frightful revolution . For this I have been censured , as receiving through weakness , or spreading through fraud and artifice , a false alarm . Whatever others . may think of the matter ...
... England as included in Europe ) from a truly frightful revolution . For this I have been censured , as receiving through weakness , or spreading through fraud and artifice , a false alarm . Whatever others . may think of the matter ...
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... England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is a sore evil , —an evil from which , before this time , England was more free than any other nation . Noth- ing can preserve us from that evil which connects cabinet ...
... England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is a sore evil , —an evil from which , before this time , England was more free than any other nation . Noth- ing can preserve us from that evil which connects cabinet ...
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... England , and when every motive of moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People ...
... England , and when every motive of moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People ...
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... England , Mr. Fox did not ( as had been usual in cases of far less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in ...
... England , Mr. Fox did not ( as had been usual in cases of far less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in ...
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... England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little or nothing upon the subject . He contented himself with defending the ruling factions in France , and with accusing the ...
... England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little or nothing upon the subject . He contented himself with defending the ruling factions in France , and with accusing the ...
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