The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... hands . They are therefore not only devoted to liberty , but to liberty according to English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like oth- er mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible ...
... hands . They are therefore not only devoted to liberty , but to liberty according to English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like oth- er mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible ...
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... hand in hand with them ; and received great favour and every kind of support from authority . The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government . But the dissenting interests have sprung ...
... hand in hand with them ; and received great favour and every kind of support from authority . The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government . But the dissenting interests have sprung ...
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... hands . But the question is , not whether their spirit deserves praise or blame ; -what , in the name of God , shall we do with it ? You have before you the object ; such as it is , with all its glories , with all its imperfec- tions on ...
... hands . But the question is , not whether their spirit deserves praise or blame ; -what , in the name of God , shall we do with it ? You have before you the object ; such as it is , with all its glories , with all its imperfec- tions on ...
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... hands , as to afford room for an immense future population , although the crown not only withheld its grants , but annihilated its soil . If this be the case , then the only effect of this avarice of desolation , this hoarding of a ...
... hands , as to afford room for an immense future population , although the crown not only withheld its grants , but annihilated its soil . If this be the case , then the only effect of this avarice of desolation , this hoarding of a ...
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... hands at once . But when we talk of enfranchisement , do we not perceive that the American mas- ter may enfranchise too ; and arm servile hands in defence of freedom ? A measure to which other people have had re course more than once ...
... hands at once . But when we talk of enfranchisement , do we not perceive that the American mas- ter may enfranchise too ; and arm servile hands in defence of freedom ? A measure to which other people have had re course more than once ...
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