The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... common judgment , or the last degree of information , speak a word in praise of the greater part of the publications circulated by that society ; nor have their proceedings been accounted , except by some of themselves , as of any ...
... common judgment , or the last degree of information , speak a word in praise of the greater part of the publications circulated by that society ; nor have their proceedings been accounted , except by some of themselves , as of any ...
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... common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) with . out inquiry what the nature of that government was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congratulate ...
... common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) with . out inquiry what the nature of that government was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congratulate ...
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... common with all governments , so far as opinion is security , is taken away . Thus these politicians proceed , whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines ; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words ...
... common with all governments , so far as opinion is security , is taken away . Thus these politicians proceed , whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines ; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words ...
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... common law ; in the new by the statute law ; operating on the principles of the common law , not changing the substance , but regulating the mode and describing the persons . Both these descriptions of law are of the same force , and ...
... common law ; in the new by the statute law ; operating on the principles of the common law , not changing the substance , but regulating the mode and describing the persons . Both these descriptions of law are of the same force , and ...
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... common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery , who formerly maintained , what I believe no creature now maintains , ' that the crown is held by divine , hereditary , and ...
... common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery , who formerly maintained , what I believe no creature now maintains , ' that the crown is held by divine , hereditary , and ...
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