The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... will attend their cause with dili- gence , and I hope with effect . For , if I know any thing of myself , it is not my own interest in it , but my full conviction , that induces me to tell you - I think there 6 SPEECH AT THE.
... will attend their cause with dili- gence , and I hope with effect . For , if I know any thing of myself , it is not my own interest in it , but my full conviction , that induces me to tell you - I think there 6 SPEECH AT THE.
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... interest to his own . But , his unbiassed opinion , his mature judgment , his enlightened con- science , he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man , or to any set of men living . These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no ...
... interest to his own . But , his unbiassed opinion , his mature judgment , his enlightened con- science , he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man , or to any set of men living . These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no ...
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... interests ; which interests each must maintain , as an agent and advocate , against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole ; where , not local ...
... interests ; which interests each must maintain , as an agent and advocate , against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole ; where , not local ...
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... interest , which reconciles them to British government . My idea is nothing more . Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion ; and ever will be so , as long as the world endures . Plain good intention , which is as easily dis ...
... interest , which reconciles them to British government . My idea is nothing more . Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion ; and ever will be so , as long as the world endures . Plain good intention , which is as easily dis ...
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... interest of his country , formed by a long course of enlightened and dis- criminating experience . Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail ; if a great part of the members who now fill the house had ...
... interest of his country , formed by a long course of enlightened and dis- criminating experience . Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail ; if a great part of the members who now fill the house had ...
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