The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page ix
... liberty as well as any gentleman of that ( Revolution ) society ' ( p . 7 ) ; here is an echo of the pro - American speeches . He is misled by a false analogy to the English Revolution , and never desires to be thought a better Whig ...
... liberty as well as any gentleman of that ( Revolution ) society ' ( p . 7 ) ; here is an echo of the pro - American speeches . He is misled by a false analogy to the English Revolution , and never desires to be thought a better Whig ...
Page 3
... liberty , and that I think you bound , in all honest policy , to provide a permanent body in which that spirit may reside , and an effectual organ by which it may act , it is my mis- fortune to entertain great doubts concerning several ...
... liberty , and that I think you bound , in all honest policy , to provide a permanent body in which that spirit may reside , and an effectual organ by which it may act , it is my mis- fortune to entertain great doubts concerning several ...
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... Commons would reject the most sneaking petition for the most trifling object , under that mode of signature to which you have thrown open MANLY , MORAL , REGULATED LIBERTY 7 the folding doors 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
... Commons would reject the most sneaking petition for the most trifling object , under that mode of signature to which you have thrown open MANLY , MORAL , REGULATED LIBERTY 7 the folding doors 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
Page 7
... liberty as well as any gentleman of that society , be he who he will and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to ...
... liberty as well as any gentleman of that society , be he who he will and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to ...
Page 8
... liberty , is good ; yet could I , in 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 ...
... liberty , is good ; yet could I , in 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 ...
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