The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 6
... 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 House two grounds of deliber ...
... 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 House two grounds of deliber ...
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... ground , he states it as useless , and thinks it may be even dangerous , to enter into so extensive a field of inquiry . Yet , to my surprise , he had hardly laid down this restrictive proposition , to which his authority would have ...
... ground , he states it as useless , and thinks it may be even dangerous , to enter into so extensive a field of inquiry . Yet , to my surprise , he had hardly laid down this restrictive proposition , to which his authority would have ...
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... ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to the proposition of the honora- ble gentleman who ...
... ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to the proposition of the honora- ble gentleman who ...
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... ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you every hour of your delay . But ...
... ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you every hour of your delay . But ...
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... ground and pillar of freedom , is itself held up only by the treacherous underpinning and clumsy buttresses of arbitrary power ? If this dignity , which is to stand in the place of just policy and common sense , had been consulted ...
... ground and pillar of freedom , is itself held up only by the treacherous underpinning and clumsy buttresses of arbitrary power ? If this dignity , which is to stand in the place of just policy and common sense , had been consulted ...
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