The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... kingdom to discover them ; if I were then , all at once , to turn short , and declare , that I had been sporting all this while with the right of election ; and that I had been drawing out a poll , upon no sort of ra- tional grounds ...
... kingdom to discover them ; if I were then , all at once , to turn short , and declare , that I had been sporting all this while with the right of election ; and that I had been drawing out a poll , upon no sort of ra- tional grounds ...
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... kingdom . But my idea of it is this ; that an empire is the aggregate of many states , under one common head ; whether this head be a monarch , or a presiding republick . It does , in such constitutions , fre- quently happen ( and ...
... kingdom . But my idea of it is this ; that an empire is the aggregate of many states , under one common head ; whether this head be a monarch , or a presiding republick . It does , in such constitutions , fre- quently happen ( and ...
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... kingdom . You deposed kings ; you restored them ; you altered the succession to theirs , as well as to your own crown ; but you never altered their constitution ; the principle of which was respected by usurpation ; restored with the ...
... kingdom . You deposed kings ; you restored them ; you altered the succession to theirs , as well as to your own crown ; but you never altered their constitution ; the principle of which was respected by usurpation ; restored with the ...
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... kingdom . Your Irish pensioners would starve , if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes to those popular grants from whence all your great sup- plies are come ; and learn to respect ...
... kingdom . Your Irish pensioners would starve , if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes to those popular grants from whence all your great sup- plies are come ; and learn to respect ...
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... kingdom like an incubus ; that it was an unpro- fitable and oppressive burthen ; and that an Englishman tra- velling in that country could not go six yards from the high road without being murdered . The march of the human mind is slow ...
... kingdom like an incubus ; that it was an unpro- fitable and oppressive burthen ; and that an Englishman tra- velling in that country could not go six yards from the high road without being murdered . The march of the human mind is slow ...
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