The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... ment , and we hope is a justification of our offering it . We do not presume to descant on the merit of these Speeches ; but as it is no less new , than honourable , to find a popular candidate , at a popular election , daring to avow ...
... ment , and we hope is a justification of our offering it . We do not presume to descant on the merit of these Speeches ; but as it is no less new , than honourable , to find a popular candidate , at a popular election , daring to avow ...
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... ment , the resort to which appears to me , in our present situa- tion , no better than arrant trifling . I shall therefore endea vour , with your leave , to lay before you some of the most material of these circumstances in as full and ...
... ment , the resort to which appears to me , in our present situa- tion , no better than arrant trifling . I shall therefore endea vour , with your leave , to lay before you some of the most material of these circumstances in as full and ...
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... ment , for preserving a people so numerous , so active , so growing , so spirited as this , in a profitable and subordinate connection with us . First , Sir , permit me to observe , that the use of force alone is but temporary . It may ...
... ment , for preserving a people so numerous , so active , so growing , so spirited as this , in a profitable and subordinate connection with us . First , Sir , permit me to observe , that the use of force alone is but temporary . It may ...
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... ment they parted from your 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 ...
... ment they parted from your 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 ...
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... ment , it recognises the equity of not suffering any considera- ble district in which the British subjects may act as a body , to be taxed without their own voice in the grant . Now if the doctrines of policy contained in these pream ...
... ment , it recognises the equity of not suffering any considera- ble district in which the British subjects may act as a body , to be taxed without their own voice in the grant . Now if the doctrines of policy contained in these pream ...
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