The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... objects of barren speculation . Wisdom in him was always practical . Whatever his understanding adopted as truth , mnade its way to his heart , and sunk deep into it ; and his ardent and generous feelings seized with promptitude and ...
... objects of barren speculation . Wisdom in him was always practical . Whatever his understanding adopted as truth , mnade its way to his heart , and sunk deep into it ; and his ardent and generous feelings seized with promptitude and ...
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... object of his detestation and hostility . His endeavours to stifle it in its birth , or to obstruct its march , and impede its progress , or to redress its oppressions , will be found to have occupied , in various instances , as I have ...
... object of his detestation and hostility . His endeavours to stifle it in its birth , or to obstruct its march , and impede its progress , or to redress its oppressions , will be found to have occupied , in various instances , as I have ...
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Edmund Burke. House of Commons , the attainment of its main object , was placed out of the power of his opponents to wrest from him . -The existence of the enormities , with the commission of which the governour - general was charged ...
Edmund Burke. House of Commons , the attainment of its main object , was placed out of the power of his opponents to wrest from him . -The existence of the enormities , with the commission of which the governour - general was charged ...
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Edmund Burke. and of the constitution , was with him the sole object of that alliance . Afterwards , when the independence of Europe was endan- gered by an overwhelming force , which nothing but the resources of this country appeared ...
Edmund Burke. and of the constitution , was with him the sole object of that alliance . Afterwards , when the independence of Europe was endan- gered by an overwhelming force , which nothing but the resources of this country appeared ...
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... objects of the crimes we charge on Mr. Hastings . The several articles , as they appear before you , will be opened by other gentlemen with more particularity , with more distinctness , and , without doubt , with infinitely more ability ...
... objects of the crimes we charge on Mr. Hastings . The several articles , as they appear before you , will be opened by other gentlemen with more particularity , with more distinctness , and , without doubt , with infinitely more ability ...
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