The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... true , my Lord , what you say , that , through our public life , we have generally sailed on somewhat different tacks . We have so , undoubtedly ; and we should do so still , if I had continued longer to keep the sea . In that ...
... true , my Lord , what you say , that , through our public life , we have generally sailed on somewhat different tacks . We have so , undoubtedly ; and we should do so still , if I had continued longer to keep the sea . In that ...
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... true , that his protest against binding him to his opinions , and his reserva- tion of a right to whatever opinions he pleases , remain in their full force . This variability is pleasant , and shows a fertility of fancy : - Qualis in ...
... true , that his protest against binding him to his opinions , and his reserva- tion of a right to whatever opinions he pleases , remain in their full force . This variability is pleasant , and shows a fertility of fancy : - Qualis in ...
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... true , that , in a course of ages , empires have fallen , and , in the opinion of some , not in mine , by their own weight . Sometimes they have been un- questionably embarrassed in their movements by the dissociated situation of their ...
... true , that , in a course of ages , empires have fallen , and , in the opinion of some , not in mine , by their own weight . Sometimes they have been un- questionably embarrassed in their movements by the dissociated situation of their ...
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... dismemberment , whilst she is adding great nations to her empire , is it , then , quite so certain that the dissipation of France into such a cluster of petty republics would be so very favorable to the true bal- LETTER IV . 23.
... dismemberment , whilst she is adding great nations to her empire , is it , then , quite so certain that the dissipation of France into such a cluster of petty republics would be so very favorable to the true bal- LETTER IV . 23.
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Edmund Burke. republics would be so very favorable to the true bal- ance of power in Europe as this author imagines it would be , and to the commerce of nations ? I greatly differ from him . I perhaps shall prove in a future letter ...
Edmund Burke. republics would be so very favorable to the true bal- ance of power in Europe as this author imagines it would be , and to the commerce of nations ? I greatly differ from him . I perhaps shall prove in a future letter ...
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