The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... revenue ; with morality and religion ; with solidity and property ; with peace and order ; with civil and social manners . All these ( in their way ) are good things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts ...
... revenue ; with morality and religion ; with solidity and property ; with peace and order ; with civil and social manners . All these ( in their way ) are good things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts ...
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... - potism from the earth , by showing that freedom was not only reconcilable , but , as when well disciplined it is , auxiliary to law . You would have had an unoppres- sive but a productive revenue . You would have had.
... - potism from the earth , by showing that freedom was not only reconcilable , but , as when well disciplined it is , auxiliary to law . You would have had an unoppres- sive but a productive revenue . You would have had.
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Edmund Burke. sive but a productive revenue . You would have had a flourishing commerce to feed it . You would have had a free constitution ; a potent monarchy ; a disciplined army ; a reformed and venerated clergy ; a mitigated but ...
Edmund Burke. sive but a productive revenue . You would have had a flourishing commerce to feed it . You would have had a free constitution ; a potent monarchy ; a disciplined army ; a reformed and venerated clergy ; a mitigated but ...
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... revenue unpaid , yet the people impoverished ; a church pillaged , and a state not relieved ; civil and military anarchy made the constitution of the kingdom ; everything human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit , and ...
... revenue unpaid , yet the people impoverished ; a church pillaged , and a state not relieved ; civil and military anarchy made the constitution of the kingdom ; everything human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit , and ...
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... revenue reduced to a patriotic con- tribution , or patriotic presents ? Are silver shoe buckles to be substituted in the place of the land - tax and the malt - tax , for the support of the naval strength of this kingdom ? Are all orders ...
... revenue reduced to a patriotic con- tribution , or patriotic presents ? Are silver shoe buckles to be substituted in the place of the land - tax and the malt - tax , for the support of the naval strength of this kingdom ? Are all orders ...
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