The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page 40
... army ; a reformed and venerated clergy ; a mitigated but spirited nobility , to lead your virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a ...
... army ; a reformed and venerated clergy ; a mitigated but spirited nobility , to lead your virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a ...
Page 57
... army , and illegally to perpetuate the assembly , without resort to its constituents , as the means of continuing its despotism . It will make efforts , by becoming the heart of a boundless paper circulation , to draw everything to ...
... army , and illegally to perpetuate the assembly , without resort to its constituents , as the means of continuing its despotism . It will make efforts , by becoming the heart of a boundless paper circulation , to draw everything to ...
Page 59
... army to be seduced from its discipline and its fidelity , first by every kind of debauchery , and then by the terrible precedent of a donative in the increase of pay ? Are the curates to be seduced from their bishops , by holding out to ...
... army to be seduced from its discipline and its fidelity , first by every kind of debauchery , and then by the terrible precedent of a donative in the increase of pay ? Are the curates to be seduced from their bishops , by holding out to ...
Page 74
... army not raised either by the autho- rity of their crown , or by their command ; and which , if they should order to dissolve itself , would instantly dissolve them . There they sit , after a gang of assassins had driven away some ...
... army not raised either by the autho- rity of their crown , or by their command ; and which , if they should order to dissolve itself , would instantly dissolve them . There they sit , after a gang of assassins had driven away some ...
Page 190
... army ; and conclude with the system of finance ; to see whether we can discover in any part of their schemes the por- tentous ability which may justify these bold under- takers in the superiority which they assume over mankind . It is ...
... army ; and conclude with the system of finance ; to see whether we can discover in any part of their schemes the por- tentous ability which may justify these bold under- takers in the superiority which they assume over mankind . It is ...
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