The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Scholarly Press, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... under every discouragement , was faithful to public duty and to private friendship . I shall then probably be dead . I am sure I do not wish to live to see such things . But whilst I LETTER TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND . 5.
... under every discouragement , was faithful to public duty and to private friendship . I shall then probably be dead . I am sure I do not wish to live to see such things . But whilst I LETTER TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND . 5.
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Edmund Burke. to live to see such things . But whilst I do live , I shall pursue the same course , although my merits should be taken for unpardonable faults , and as such avenged , not only on myself , but on my posterity . Adicu , my ...
Edmund Burke. to live to see such things . But whilst I do live , I shall pursue the same course , although my merits should be taken for unpardonable faults , and as such avenged , not only on myself , but on my posterity . Adicu , my ...
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... live and die in their French principles . This insolent claim of superiority on their part , and of a sort of vassalage to them on that of other mem- bers , is what no liberal mind will submit to bear . 49. The society of the Liberty of ...
... live and die in their French principles . This insolent claim of superiority on their part , and of a sort of vassalage to them on that of other mem- bers , is what no liberal mind will submit to bear . 49. The society of the Liberty of ...
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... lives of their fellow - citizens , the Common Council of Paris , pretending that it was in vain to think of resisting the murderers , ( although in truth neither their numbers nor their arms were at all formidable , ) obliged those ...
... lives of their fellow - citizens , the Common Council of Paris , pretending that it was in vain to think of resisting the murderers , ( although in truth neither their numbers nor their arms were at all formidable , ) obliged those ...
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... lives of those who had , as he calls it , " presented themselves as victims to their fury . " He paints the miserable See p . 12 and p . 13 of this translation . 1 ― prisoners , who had been forcibly piled upon one 78 PREFACE TO ...
... lives of those who had , as he calls it , " presented themselves as victims to their fury . " He paints the miserable See p . 12 and p . 13 of this translation . 1 ― prisoners , who had been forcibly piled upon one 78 PREFACE TO ...
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