The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... receiving . The Speeches on the Middlesex Election , on shortening the Duration of Parliaments , on the Reform of the Representation in Parliament , on the Bill for explaining the Power of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels , and on the ...
... receiving . The Speeches on the Middlesex Election , on shortening the Duration of Parliaments , on the Reform of the Representation in Parliament , on the Bill for explaining the Power of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels , and on the ...
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... receiving the petition . In the next place , Sir , I am clear , that the Act of Union , reciting and ratifying one Scotch and one Eng- lish act of Parliament , has not rendered any change whatsoever in our Church impossible , but by a ...
... receiving the petition . In the next place , Sir , I am clear , that the Act of Union , reciting and ratifying one Scotch and one Eng- lish act of Parliament , has not rendered any change whatsoever in our Church impossible , but by a ...
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... received at one payment . I believe the payment of sums in hard money , plain , naked bribery , is rare amongst us . It was then far from uncommon . A triennial was near ruining , a septennial Parlia- ment saved your Constitution ; nor ...
... received at one payment . I believe the payment of sums in hard money , plain , naked bribery , is rare amongst us . It was then far from uncommon . A triennial was near ruining , a septennial Parlia- ment saved your Constitution ; nor ...
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... received were sent from Phoenicia , or the Lesser Asia , or Egypt , the great fountains of the ancient civility and learning . And they became more or less , earlier or later , polished , as they were situated nearer to or further from ...
... received were sent from Phoenicia , or the Lesser Asia , or Egypt , the great fountains of the ancient civility and learning . And they became more or less , earlier or later , polished , as they were situated nearer to or further from ...
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... received considerable succors ; by which means this island first came to be known with any exactness by the Romans , and first drew upon it the attention of that victorious people . Though Cæsar had reduced Gaul , he perceived clearly ...
... received considerable succors ; by which means this island first came to be known with any exactness by the Romans , and first drew upon it the attention of that victorious people . Though Cæsar had reduced Gaul , he perceived clearly ...
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