The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... force ; with the discipline and obedience of armies ; with the collection of an effective and well - distributed revenue ; with morality and religion ; with solidity and property ; with peace and order ; with civil and social manners ...
... force ; with the discipline and obedience of armies ; with the collection of an effective and well - distributed revenue ; with morality and religion ; with solidity and property ; with peace and order ; with civil and social manners ...
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... force and opportunity , the nation was at that time , in some sense , free to take what course it pleased for filling the throne ; but only free to do so upon the same grounds on which they might have wholly abolished their monarchy ...
... force and opportunity , the nation was at that time , in some sense , free to take what course it pleased for filling the throne ; but only free to do so upon the same grounds on which they might have wholly abolished their monarchy ...
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... force . On this principle the succession of the crown has always been what it now is , an hereditary succession by law in the old line it was a succession by the common law ; in the new by the statute law ; operating on the principles ...
... force . On this principle the succession of the crown has always been what it now is , an hereditary succession by law in the old line it was a succession by the common law ; in the new by the statute law ; operating on the principles ...
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... force , the hereditary succession was either continued or adopted . The gentlemen of the Society for Revolutions see nothing in that of 1688 but the deviation from the constitution ; and they take the deviation from the principle for ...
... force , the hereditary succession was either continued or adopted . The gentlemen of the Society for Revolutions see nothing in that of 1688 but the deviation from the constitution ; and they take the deviation from the principle for ...
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... force upon their minds . A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter , so capable of supporting itself , by the then unnecessary support of any argument ; but this se- ditious , unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly ...
... force upon their minds . A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter , so capable of supporting itself , by the then unnecessary support of any argument ; but this se- ditious , unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly ...
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