The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... 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 any other nation . But I cannot stand for- ward , and give praise or blame ...
... 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 any other nation . But I cannot stand for- ward , and give praise or blame ...
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... perhaps of more than Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most ...
... perhaps of more than Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most ...
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... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and , therefore , he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable ...
... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and , therefore , he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable ...
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... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary suc- cession ...
... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary suc- cession ...
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... perhaps impiously too , as if monarchy had more of a divine sanction than any other mode of government ; and as if a right to govern by inheritance were in strictness indefeasible in every person who should be found in the succession to ...
... perhaps impiously too , as if monarchy had more of a divine sanction than any other mode of government ; and as if a right to govern by inheritance were in strictness indefeasible in every person who should be found in the succession to ...
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