The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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Page 37
... crown , without any love to his people , — dissolute , false , venal , and desti- tute of any positive good quality whatsoever , except a pleasant temper , and the manners of a gentleman . Yet the restoration of our monarchy , even in ...
... crown , without any love to his people , — dissolute , false , venal , and desti- tute of any positive good quality whatsoever , except a pleasant temper , and the manners of a gentleman . Yet the restoration of our monarchy , even in ...
Page 48
... view of your old Constitution , as connected with all the present circumstances , I was fully persuaded that the crown , standing as things have stood , ( and are likely to stand , if you are to have 48 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... view of your old Constitution , as connected with all the present circumstances , I was fully persuaded that the crown , standing as things have stood , ( and are likely to stand , if you are to have 48 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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... crown ; he is not the organ of any party . The excellencies of the British Constitution had al- ready exercised and exhausted the talents of the best thinkers and the most cloquent writers and speakers that the world ever saw . But in ...
... crown ; he is not the organ of any party . The excellencies of the British Constitution had al- ready exercised and exhausted the talents of the best thinkers and the most cloquent writers and speakers that the world ever saw . But in ...
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... crown . " Had Mr. Fox fallen into the snare , his speech on the occasion would have been laid before a great personage , as a proof that a man who could defend such a revolution might be a very good republican , but could not possibly ...
... crown . " Had Mr. Fox fallen into the snare , his speech on the occasion would have been laid before a great personage , as a proof that a man who could defend such a revolution might be a very good republican , but could not possibly ...
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... crown , and to break their con- nection with the parent country . This Mr. Burke never believed . When he moved his second concil- iatory proposition , in the year 1776 , he entered into the discussion of this point at very great length ...
... crown , and to break their con- nection with the parent country . This Mr. Burke never believed . When he moved his second concil- iatory proposition , in the year 1776 , he entered into the discussion of this point at very great length ...
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