The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... occasions , to their support , he would have derived from that knowledge , in the present inauspicious state of publick ... occasion of applying it to the use of man- kind . How large a portion of an active and laborious life was thus ...
... occasions , to their support , he would have derived from that knowledge , in the present inauspicious state of publick ... occasion of applying it to the use of man- kind . How large a portion of an active and laborious life was thus ...
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... occasion.- In an early stage of the proceeding , the criminal desired to be heard . He was heard ; and he produced before the bar of the House that insolent and unbecoming paper , which lies upon our table . It was deliberately given in ...
... occasion.- In an early stage of the proceeding , the criminal desired to be heard . He was heard ; and he produced before the bar of the House that insolent and unbecoming paper , which lies upon our table . It was deliberately given in ...
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... occasion , which , in its pre- cipitate career , bears every thing down before it , which does not give time to the mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by ...
... occasion , which , in its pre- cipitate career , bears every thing down before it , which does not give time to the mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by ...
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... occasion your lordships will show , that this nation never did give a power , without an- nexing to it a proportionable degree of responsibility . As to their other powers , the company derives them from the Mogul empire by various ...
... occasion your lordships will show , that this nation never did give a power , without an- nexing to it a proportionable degree of responsibility . As to their other powers , the company derives them from the Mogul empire by various ...
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... occasions , in which it is not proper to divulge promiscuously a private correspond- ence , though on publick affairs , to the world ; but there is no occasion , in which it is not a necessary duty , on requisi- tion , to communicate ...
... occasions , in which it is not proper to divulge promiscuously a private correspond- ence , though on publick affairs , to the world ; but there is no occasion , in which it is not a necessary duty , on requisi- tion , to communicate ...
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