The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... of the National Assembly , in reference to some objections to some points raised in the Reflections , finds Burke considerably advanced even PREFACE xiii in the two or three months which had xii BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... of the National Assembly , in reference to some objections to some points raised in the Reflections , finds Burke considerably advanced even PREFACE xiii in the two or three months which had xii BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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... considerable degree , by its public will , I should think it at least improper and irregular for me to open a formal public correspondence with the actual government of a foreign nation , without the ex- press authority of the ...
... considerable degree , by its public will , I should think it at least improper and irregular for me to open a formal public correspondence with the actual government of a foreign nation , without the ex- press authority of the ...
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... considerable degree , follow . They must conform their propositions to the taste , talent , and disposition , of those whom they wish to conduct : therefore , if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it ...
... considerable degree , follow . They must conform their propositions to the taste , talent , and disposition , of those whom they wish to conduct : therefore , if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it ...
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... is held becomes the standard of the estimation in which the professors hold themselves . Whatever the personal merits of many individual lawyers might have been , and in many it was undoubtedly very considerable , in.
... is held becomes the standard of the estimation in which the professors hold themselves . Whatever the personal merits of many individual lawyers might have been , and in many it was undoubtedly very considerable , in.
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Edmund Burke. and in many it was undoubtedly very considerable , in that military kingdom no part of the profession had been much regarded , except the highest of all , who often united to their professional offices great family ...
Edmund Burke. and in many it was undoubtedly very considerable , in that military kingdom no part of the profession had been much regarded , except the highest of all , who often united to their professional offices great family ...
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