The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... means of gratifying the public curiosity were obligingly fur- nished from the notes of some gentlemen , members of the last Parliament . • This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over ...
... means of gratifying the public curiosity were obligingly fur- nished from the notes of some gentlemen , members of the last Parliament . • This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over ...
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... means of giving the profits of the trade of your colonies to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people suffer so much for the empty words of a preamble . It must be given up . For on what prin- ciple does it stand ? This famous ...
... means of giving the profits of the trade of your colonies to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people suffer so much for the empty words of a preamble . It must be given up . For on what prin- ciple does it stand ? This famous ...
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... means which you confess , though they were obeyed , to be utterly insufficient for their purpose . You are therefore at this moment in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom , -a quiddity , a thing that wants , not only a sub ...
... means which you confess , though they were obeyed , to be utterly insufficient for their purpose . You are therefore at this moment in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom , -a quiddity , a thing that wants , not only a sub ...
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... means " of reëstab- lishing the confidence and affection of the colonies ? " Is it a way of soothing others , to assure them that you will take good care of yourself ? The medium , the only medium , for regaining their affection and ...
... means " of reëstab- lishing the confidence and affection of the colonies ? " Is it a way of soothing others , to assure them that you will take good care of yourself ? The medium , the only medium , for regaining their affection and ...
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... means of fighting : not as now , when our arms are tied behind us . We did fight that day , and conquer . I remember , Sir , with a melancholy pleasure , the situation of the honorable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal : in ...
... means of fighting : not as now , when our arms are tied behind us . We did fight that day , and conquer . I remember , Sir , with a melancholy pleasure , the situation of the honorable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal : in ...
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