The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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Page 18
... direct mo- tion , he had no other way open to him . Nobody has attempted to show , that it was at all admissible into any other business before the House . Here everything was favourable . Here was a bill to form a new constitution for ...
... direct mo- tion , he had no other way open to him . Nobody has attempted to show , that it was at all admissible into any other business before the House . Here everything was favourable . Here was a bill to form a new constitution for ...
Page 20
... direct call from the subject matter , and upon the same ground . To canvass the merits of the French constitution on the Quebec bill , could not draw forth any opinions which were not brought forward before , with no small ostentation ...
... direct call from the subject matter , and upon the same ground . To canvass the merits of the French constitution on the Quebec bill , could not draw forth any opinions which were not brought forward before , with no small ostentation ...
Page 74
... direct defiance of the most notorious truth , they describe his government there to be a despotism ; whereas it is a free constitution , in which the states of the electorate have their part in the govern- ment ; and this privilege has ...
... direct defiance of the most notorious truth , they describe his government there to be a despotism ; whereas it is a free constitution , in which the states of the electorate have their part in the govern- ment ; and this privilege has ...
Page 93
... they had conferred upon you originally that kind and degree of power , which , without their permission , you had seized upon . This is to give a direct sanction to fraud , hypocrisy , perjury , and THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 93.
... they had conferred upon you originally that kind and degree of power , which , without their permission , you had seized upon . This is to give a direct sanction to fraud , hypocrisy , perjury , and THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 93.
Page 94
Edmund Burke. direct sanction to fraud , hypocrisy , perjury , and the breach of the most sacred trusts that can exist between ... direct contrary to all those famous proceedings , which are defended as the acts of the people . Had such ...
Edmund Burke. direct sanction to fraud , hypocrisy , perjury , and the breach of the most sacred trusts that can exist between ... direct contrary to all those famous proceedings , which are defended as the acts of the people . Had such ...
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