The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... liberty shall be my great object , as far as my little faculties extend . I am far from thinking that both , even yet , may not be preserved . When I first devoted myself to the publick service , I con- sidered how I should render ...
... liberty shall be my great object , as far as my little faculties extend . I am far from thinking that both , even yet , may not be preserved . When I first devoted myself to the publick service , I con- sidered how I should render ...
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... liberty . To preserve that liberty inviolate , seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only liberty I mean , is a liberty connect- ed with order ; that not only exists along ...
... liberty . To preserve that liberty inviolate , seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only liberty I mean , is a liberty connect- ed with order ; that not only exists along ...
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... liberty of observing to you ) some ground . sible that a good deal more is still to be done . to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment , I think it may be ...
... liberty of observing to you ) some ground . sible that a good deal more is still to be done . to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment , I think it may be ...
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... liberty . I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have asserted , in my de- tail , is admitted in the gross ; but that quite a different con- clusion is drawn from it . America , gentlemen say , is a no- ble object . It is an object well ...
... liberty . I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have asserted , in my de- tail , is admitted in the gross ; but that quite a different con- clusion is drawn from it . America , gentlemen say , is a no- ble object . It is an object well ...
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... 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 objects ; and every nation has formed to itself ...
... 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 objects ; and every nation has formed to itself ...
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