The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... claim to natural liberty . Their very existence depended on the pow- erful and unremitted assertion of that claim . All protestant- ism , even the most cold and passive , is a sort of dissent . the religion most prevalent in our ...
... claim to natural liberty . Their very existence depended on the pow- erful and unremitted assertion of that claim . All protestant- ism , even the most cold and passive , is a sort of dissent . the religion most prevalent in our ...
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... claim of a privilege seems rather ex vi termini , to imply a superiour power . For to talk of the privileges of a state or of a person , who has no superiour , is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate ...
... claim of a privilege seems rather ex vi termini , to imply a superiour power . For to talk of the privileges of a state or of a person , who has no superiour , is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate ...
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... claim , because you have your evidence - room full of titles , and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them ? What signify all those titles , and all those arms ? Of what avail are they , when the reason of the thing tells me ...
... claim , because you have your evidence - room full of titles , and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them ? What signify all those titles , and all those arms ? Of what avail are they , when the reason of the thing tells me ...
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... claims of the people ? If it runs into any of these errours , the fault is not mine . It is the language of your own ancient acts of parliament . Non meus hic sermo , sed quæ præcepit Ofellus , rusticus , abnormis sa- piens . It is the ...
... claims of the people ? If it runs into any of these errours , the fault is not mine . It is the language of your own ancient acts of parliament . Non meus hic sermo , sed quæ præcepit Ofellus , rusticus , abnormis sa- piens . It is the ...
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... claim a sort of share from my love and admiration of them ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some service . They thought , that by con- tracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen ...
... claim a sort of share from my love and admiration of them ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some service . They thought , that by con- tracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen ...
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