The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... thing properly before us , and which sufficiently competent to decide upon , to the as idle as we are motives of the petitioners , which belong exclusively to the Great Searcher of Hearts . We all know that those who loll at their ease ...
... thing properly before us , and which sufficiently competent to decide upon , to the as idle as we are motives of the petitioners , which belong exclusively to the Great Searcher of Hearts . We all know that those who loll at their ease ...
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... things more regularly and argu- mentatively urged against the petition , which , how- ever , do not at all appear to me conclusive . First , two honorable gentlemen , one near me , the other , I think , on the other side of the House ...
... things more regularly and argu- mentatively urged against the petition , which , how- ever , do not at all appear to me conclusive . First , two honorable gentlemen , one near me , the other , I think , on the other side of the House ...
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... things in them which one would wish had not been there . They are not without the marks and characters of human frailty . But it is not human frailty and imperfection , and even a considerable degree of them , that becomes a ground for ...
... things in them which one would wish had not been there . They are not without the marks and characters of human frailty . But it is not human frailty and imperfection , and even a considerable degree of them , that becomes a ground for ...
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... things : by act you may revive it . I will not enter into the question , how much truth is preferable to peace . Perhaps truth may be far better . But as we have scarcely ever the same certainty in the one that we have in the other , I ...
... things : by act you may revive it . I will not enter into the question , how much truth is preferable to peace . Perhaps truth may be far better . But as we have scarcely ever the same certainty in the one that we have in the other , I ...
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... things for the protection of which society was introduced , is great hardship and intolerable tyranny ; but to annex any condition you please to benefits artificially created is the most just , natural , and proper thing in the world ...
... things for the protection of which society was introduced , is great hardship and intolerable tyranny ; but to annex any condition you please to benefits artificially created is the most just , natural , and proper thing in the world ...
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