The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 13
... nature will incline you to some degree of indul- gence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to ...
... nature will incline you to some degree of indul- gence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to ...
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... nature of the object is — the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own ...
... nature of the object is — the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own ...
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... nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects , when I see how profitable they have been to us , I feel all the pride of power sink , and all pre- sumption in the wisdom of human ...
... nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects , when I see how profitable they have been to us , I feel all the pride of power sink , and all pre- sumption in the wisdom of human ...
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... nature of a house of commons , as an im- mediate representative of the people ; whether the old re- cords had delivered this oracle or not . They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all monarchies ...
... nature of a house of commons , as an im- mediate representative of the people ; whether the old re- cords had delivered this oracle or not . They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all monarchies ...
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... nature of man . The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient common ...
... nature of man . The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient common ...
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