The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Scholarly Press, 1889 - Great Britain |
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Page 10
... body of administration ( with their ideas and measures ) is of course overturned and dissolved . To come to particulars . 1. The laws and Constitution of the kingdom in- trust the sole and exclusive right of treating with foreign ...
... body of administration ( with their ideas and measures ) is of course overturned and dissolved . To come to particulars . 1. The laws and Constitution of the kingdom in- trust the sole and exclusive right of treating with foreign ...
Page 29
... body of new Departments , just as Savoy and Liego and the rest of their pretended independent popu lar sovereignties have been united to their republic . Such an arrangement must have destroyed Austria ; it must have left Holland always ...
... body of new Departments , just as Savoy and Liego and the rest of their pretended independent popu lar sovereignties have been united to their republic . Such an arrangement must have destroyed Austria ; it must have left Holland always ...
Page 52
... body of this compound Constitution of ours is subverted , either in favor of unlimited monarchy or of wild democracy , that ruin will most certainly bo the result of this very sort of machinations against the House of Commons . It is ...
... body of this compound Constitution of ours is subverted , either in favor of unlimited monarchy or of wild democracy , that ruin will most certainly bo the result of this very sort of machinations against the House of Commons . It is ...
Page 57
... body are not a great deal more tractable ; and over them , if Mr. Fox and Mr. Sheridan have authority , most assuredly the Duke of Portland has not the smallest ! degree of influence . 51. One must take care that a blind partiality to ...
... body are not a great deal more tractable ; and over them , if Mr. Fox and Mr. Sheridan have authority , most assuredly the Duke of Portland has not the smallest ! degree of influence . 51. One must take care that a blind partiality to ...
Page 60
... body of gentlemen who are pledged to him and to cach other , and to their common politics and prin- ciples . I believe no king of Great Britain ever will adopt , for his confidential servants , that body of gen- tlemen , holding that body ...
... body of gentlemen who are pledged to him and to cach other , and to their common politics and prin- ciples . I believe no king of Great Britain ever will adopt , for his confidential servants , that body of gen- tlemen , holding that body ...
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