The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... less new , than honourable , to find a popular candidate , at a popular election , daring to avow bis dissent to certain points that have been considered as very popular objects , and maintaining himself on the manly confi- dence of his ...
... less new , than honourable , to find a popular candidate , at a popular election , daring to avow bis dissent to certain points that have been considered as very popular objects , and maintaining himself on the manly confi- dence of his ...
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... less like a candidate , than an unconcerned spectator of a publick pro- ceeding . But here the face of things is altered . Here is an attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and ...
... less like a candidate , than an unconcerned spectator of a publick pro- ceeding . But here the face of things is altered . Here is an attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and ...
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... less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas , con- cerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable ; in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to ...
... less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas , con- cerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable ; in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to ...
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... less anxious , even from the idea of my own insignifi- cance . For , judging of what you are , by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself , that you would not reject a reasona- ble proposition , because it had nothing but its reason ...
... less anxious , even from the idea of my own insignifi- cance . For , judging of what you are , by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself , that you would not reject a reasona- ble proposition , because it had nothing but its reason ...
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... less than twelve - fold . This is the state of the colony trade , as compared with itself at these two periods , within this century ; -and this is matter for me- ditation . But this is not all . Examine my second account . See how the ...
... less than twelve - fold . This is the state of the colony trade , as compared with itself at these two periods , within this century ; -and this is matter for me- ditation . But this is not all . Examine my second account . See how the ...
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