The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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... France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country , " it might at first have led the hearer into an opinion , that the ...
... France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country , " it might at first have led the hearer into an opinion , that the ...
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... France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened age ! Have we not produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a ...
... France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened age ! Have we not produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a ...
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... France , in which a king , who had voluntarily and formally divested himself of the right of taxation , and of all other species of arbitrary power , has been dethroned ? -Is it be- cause Mr. Burke wished to have America rather ...
... France , in which a king , who had voluntarily and formally divested himself of the right of taxation , and of all other species of arbitrary power , has been dethroned ? -Is it be- cause Mr. Burke wished to have America rather ...
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... France in going much further , and reducing monarchy to its present nothing . Mr. Burke does not allow that a sufficient argument ad ho- minem is inferrible from these premises . If the horror of the excesses of an absolute monarchy ...
... France in going much further , and reducing monarchy to its present nothing . Mr. Burke does not allow that a sufficient argument ad ho- minem is inferrible from these premises . If the horror of the excesses of an absolute monarchy ...
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... France , without infinite detriment to them , as well in the event as in the experiment , could be brought into a repub- lican form ; but that everything republican which can be in- troduced with safety into either of them , must be ...
... France , without infinite detriment to them , as well in the event as in the experiment , could be brought into a repub- lican form ; but that everything republican which can be in- troduced with safety into either of them , must be ...
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