The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hard in- dustry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this re- cent people ; a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the ...
... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hard in- dustry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this re- cent people ; a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the ...
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... English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of power- ful causes ; which , to understand the true temper of their minds , and the direction which this spirit takes , it will not be ...
... English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of power- ful causes ; which , to understand the true temper of their minds , and the direction which this spirit takes , it will not be ...
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... English constitution , to insist on this pri- vilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove , that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments , and blind usages , to reside in a certain body called an house ...
... English constitution , to insist on this pri- vilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove , that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments , and blind usages , to reside in a certain body called an house ...
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... English Tartars ; and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become masters of your governours and your counsellors , your col- lectors and comptrollers , and of all the slaves that adhered to ...
... English Tartars ; and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become masters of your governours and your counsellors , your col- lectors and comptrollers , and of all the slaves that adhered to ...
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... English constitution . Consulting at that oracle ( it was with all due humility and piety ) I found four capital examples in a similar case before me : those of Ireland , Wales , Chester , and Durham . Ireland , before the English ...
... English constitution . Consulting at that oracle ( it was with all due humility and piety ) I found four capital examples in a similar case before me : those of Ireland , Wales , Chester , and Durham . Ireland , before the English ...
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