The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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... less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ...
... less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ...
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... less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might substitute in the place of our old , and , as they described it , superannuated , constitution . He meant to demonstrate , that the French ...
... less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might substitute in the place of our old , and , as they described it , superannuated , constitution . He meant to demonstrate , that the French ...
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... less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
... less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
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... less ; that , under the system of policy which was then pur- sued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and that the very circumstance of our freedom would have augmented ...
... less ; that , under the system of policy which was then pur- sued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and that the very circumstance of our freedom would have augmented ...
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... less evil than disturbing the whole government ; that law must needs be understood to forbid the doing or saying anything to disturb the government ; the rather because the obeying that law cannot be pretended to be against nature : and ...
... less evil than disturbing the whole government ; that law must needs be understood to forbid the doing or saying anything to disturb the government ; the rather because the obeying that law cannot be pretended to be against nature : and ...
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