The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 9
... less defen- sible motives , but that very grave reasons , influence my judgment . I think that the spirit of his late pro- ceedings is wholly alien to our national policy , and to the peace , to the prosperity , and to the legal ...
... less defen- sible motives , but that very grave reasons , influence my judgment . I think that the spirit of his late pro- ceedings is wholly alien to our national policy , and to the peace , to the prosperity , and to the legal ...
Page 11
... less reprehensible . It tends to the prejudice of the whole of the Duke of Portland's late party , by discrediting the principles npon which they supported Mr. Fox in the Russian business , as if they of that party also had proceeded in ...
... less reprehensible . It tends to the prejudice of the whole of the Duke of Portland's late party , by discrediting the principles npon which they supported Mr. Fox in the Russian business , as if they of that party also had proceeded in ...
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... less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in Parliament at that critical juncture . He concerted his measures ...
... less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in Parliament at that critical juncture . He concerted his measures ...
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... less equivocal and far more urgent . He even went so far as to treat the suppo- sition of the growth of a Jacobin spirit in England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little ...
... less equivocal and far more urgent . He even went so far as to treat the suppo- sition of the growth of a Jacobin spirit in England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little ...
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... less excuse than any act of per- fidy which we find in the history of any other nation . The moment when , by the incredible exertions of Aus- tria , ( very little through ours , ) the temporary deliv- erance of Holland ( in effect our ...
... less excuse than any act of per- fidy which we find in the history of any other nation . The moment when , by the incredible exertions of Aus- tria , ( very little through ours , ) the temporary deliv- erance of Holland ( in effect our ...
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