The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page vi
... - ing many of the manuscripts , obscured by innumer- able erasures , corrections , interlineations , and mar- ginal insertions , would perhaps have been insuperable to any person less conversant in the manuscripts of Mr. vi PREFACE .
... - ing many of the manuscripts , obscured by innumer- able erasures , corrections , interlineations , and mar- ginal insertions , would perhaps have been insuperable to any person less conversant in the manuscripts of Mr. vi PREFACE .
Page x
... perhaps , now be generally known that Mr. Burke was a marked object of the rioters in this disgraceful commotion , from whose fury he narrowly escaped . The Reflections will be found to contain maxims of the soundest judicial policy ...
... perhaps , now be generally known that Mr. Burke was a marked object of the rioters in this disgraceful commotion , from whose fury he narrowly escaped . The Reflections will be found to contain maxims of the soundest judicial policy ...
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... Perhaps I do not very perfectly comprehend your purpose , and the drift of your arguments . If I do not , pray do not attribute my mistake to want of candor , but to want of sagacity . I confess , your ad- dress to the public , together ...
... Perhaps I do not very perfectly comprehend your purpose , and the drift of your arguments . If I do not , pray do not attribute my mistake to want of candor , but to want of sagacity . I confess , your ad- dress to the public , together ...
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... Perhaps you may think that my animosity to oppo- sition is the cause of my dissent , on seeing the politics of Mr. Fox ( which , while I was in the world , I com- bated by every instrument which God had put into my hands , and in every ...
... Perhaps you may think that my animosity to oppo- sition is the cause of my dissent , on seeing the politics of Mr. Fox ( which , while I was in the world , I com- bated by every instrument which God had put into my hands , and in every ...
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... ( perhaps with more arrogance than reason ) an eternal duration to their works . The quite contrary is our present fashion . Writers value themselves now on the instability of their opin- ions and the transitory life of their productions ...
... ( perhaps with more arrogance than reason ) an eternal duration to their works . The quite contrary is our present fashion . Writers value themselves now on the instability of their opin- ions and the transitory life of their productions ...
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