The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page viii
... landed at Calais on their tour through France and Italy , on July 13 , 1790 , the eve of the day on which Louis XVI swore fidelity to the new constitution ; Wordsworth continuing long after to exult in the Revolution- Bliss was it in ...
... landed at Calais on their tour through France and Italy , on July 13 , 1790 , the eve of the day on which Louis XVI swore fidelity to the new constitution ; Wordsworth continuing long after to exult in the Revolution- Bliss was it in ...
Page 47
... what we call the natural landed interest of the country . We know that the British House of Commons , with- out shutting its doors to any merit in any class , is , by the sure operation of adequate causes , filled with every-
... what we call the natural landed interest of the country . We know that the British House of Commons , with- out shutting its doors to any merit in any class , is , by the sure operation of adequate causes , filled with every-
Page 115
... wherein they were maintained by their own landed property , to a state of indigence , depression , and contempt ? The confiscators truly have made some allowance to their victims from the scraps and fragments of their own I 2.
... wherein they were maintained by their own landed property , to a state of indigence , depression , and contempt ? The confiscators truly have made some allowance to their victims from the scraps and fragments of their own I 2.
Page 119
... strict than they are in England , the jus retractus , the great mass of landed property held by the crown , and , by a maxim of the French law , held unalienably , the vast estates of the ecclesiastic corporations , -all these had kept.
... strict than they are in England , the jus retractus , the great mass of landed property held by the crown , and , by a maxim of the French law , held unalienably , the vast estates of the ecclesiastic corporations , -all these had kept.
Page 120
... landed interests , partly for the same reasons that rendered it obnoxious to the people , but much more so as it eclipsed , by the splendour of an ostentatious luxury , the unendowed pedigrees and naked titles of several among the ...
... landed interests , partly for the same reasons that rendered it obnoxious to the people , but much more so as it eclipsed , by the splendour of an ostentatious luxury , the unendowed pedigrees and naked titles of several among the ...
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