The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Scholarly Press, 1889 - Great Britain |
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Page 5
... present you may not read the paper which I trans- mit : lock it up in the drawer of your library - table ; and when a day of compulsory reflection comes , then be pleased to turn to it . Then remember that your Grace had a true friend ...
... present you may not read the paper which I trans- mit : lock it up in the drawer of your library - table ; and when a day of compulsory reflection comes , then be pleased to turn to it . Then remember that your Grace had a true friend ...
Page 10
... present ideas ) shall have the principal direction of affairs placed in his hands , and until the present body of administration ( with their ideas and measures ) is of course overturned and dissolved . To come to particulars . 1. The ...
... present ideas ) shall have the principal direction of affairs placed in his hands , and until the present body of administration ( with their ideas and measures ) is of course overturned and dissolved . To come to particulars . 1. The ...
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Edmund Burke. bination of despots . Indeed , no man can look on the present posture of Europe with the least degreo of discernment , who will not be thoroughly con- vinced that England must be the fast friend or the determined enemy of ...
Edmund Burke. bination of despots . Indeed , no man can look on the present posture of Europe with the least degreo of discernment , who will not be thoroughly con- vinced that England must be the fast friend or the determined enemy of ...
Page 41
... present repelled , they put that matter out of sight , and have taken up the more plausible and popular ground of general peace , upon merely general principles ; although these very men , in the correspondence of their clubs with those ...
... present repelled , they put that matter out of sight , and have taken up the more plausible and popular ground of general peace , upon merely general principles ; although these very men , in the correspondence of their clubs with those ...
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... present mode of constituting the House of Commons ; on the contrary , he de- clares against all the plans which have yet been suggested , either from himself or others : yet , thus unprovided with any plan whatsoever , he pressed for ...
... present mode of constituting the House of Commons ; on the contrary , he de- clares against all the plans which have yet been suggested , either from himself or others : yet , thus unprovided with any plan whatsoever , he pressed for ...
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