The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... trust which you have to confer on this occasion ; and , by long experience , so just a diffidence in my abilities , to fill it in a manner adequate even to my own ideas , that I should never have ventured of myself to intrude into that ...
... trust which you have to confer on this occasion ; and , by long experience , so just a diffidence in my abilities , to fill it in a manner adequate even to my own ideas , that I should never have ventured of myself to intrude into that ...
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... 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 with order and vir- tue , but which cannot exist at all without them . It inheres ...
... 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 with order and vir- tue , but which cannot exist at all without them . It inheres ...
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... trust from Providence , for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable . Your representative owes you , not his industry only , but his judgment ; and he betrays , instead of serving you , if he sacrifices it to your opinion . My worthy ...
... trust from Providence , for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable . Your representative owes you , not his industry only , but his judgment ; and he betrays , instead of serving you , if he sacrifices it to your opinion . My worthy ...
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... trust ; and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to instruct myself in every thing which relates to our colonies ...
... trust ; and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to instruct myself in every thing which relates to our colonies ...
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... trust for them by us ( as their guardians during a perpetual minority ) than with any part of it in their own hands . But the question is , not whether their spirit deserves praise or blame ; -what , in the name of God , shall we do ...
... trust for them by us ( as their guardians during a perpetual minority ) than with any part of it in their own hands . But the question is , not whether their spirit deserves praise or blame ; -what , in the name of God , shall we do ...
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