The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... authority , and , on the various grounds he has measured out , to submit to you the poor opinions which I have formed upon a matter of importance enough to demand the fullest consideration I could bestow upon it . He has stated to the ...
... authority , and , on the various grounds he has measured out , to submit to you the poor opinions which I have formed upon a matter of importance enough to demand the fullest consideration I could bestow upon it . He has stated to the ...
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... authority would have given so much weight , when directly , and with the same authority , he con- demns it , and declares it absolutely necessary to enter into the most ample historical detail . His zeal has thrown him a little out of ...
... authority would have given so much weight , when directly , and with the same authority , he con- demns it , and declares it absolutely necessary to enter into the most ample historical detail . His zeal has thrown him a little out of ...
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... authority , and that you have just revived your system of taxation ? He thinks he has driven us into a corner . But thus pent up , I am content to meet him ; because I enter the lists sup- ported by my old authority , his new friends ...
... authority , and that you have just revived your system of taxation ? He thinks he has driven us into a corner . But thus pent up , I am content to meet him ; because I enter the lists sup- ported by my old authority , his new friends ...
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... authority was actually resisted . I pass by the public promise of a peer relative to the repeal of taxes by this House . I pass by the use of the king's name in a matter of supply , that sacred and reserved right of the Commons . I ...
... authority was actually resisted . I pass by the public promise of a peer relative to the repeal of taxes by this House . I pass by the use of the king's name in a matter of supply , that sacred and reserved right of the Commons . I ...
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... authority ought ever to carry with it ? that you are obeyed solely from respect to the bayonet ? and that this House , the ground and pillar of freedom , is itself held up only by the treacherous underpinning and clumsy buttresses of ...
... authority ought ever to carry with it ? that you are obeyed solely from respect to the bayonet ? and that this House , the ground and pillar of freedom , is itself held up only by the treacherous underpinning and clumsy buttresses of ...
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