The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... sovereign magistracy ) would be overlooked , whilst the king of Great Britain was not affected by it . In the meantime the ears of their congregations would be gradually habituated to it , as if it were a first principle admitted ...
... sovereign magistracy ) would be overlooked , whilst the king of Great Britain was not affected by it . In the meantime the ears of their congregations would be gradually habituated to it , as if it were a first principle admitted ...
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... moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sovereign , occasional will to permanent reason , and to the steady maxims of faith , justice , and fixed fundamental policy , are perfectly intelligible , and perfectly.
... moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sovereign , occasional will to permanent reason , and to the steady maxims of faith , justice , and fixed fundamental policy , are perfectly intelligible , and perfectly.
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... 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 . The crown was ...
... 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 . The crown was ...
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... sovereigns out of the quiet of their tombs ? Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution , and conse- quently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation ...
... sovereigns out of the quiet of their tombs ? Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution , and conse- quently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation ...
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... sovereign lord King James the First , of happy memory , and is hereby declared to be the next in succession in the Protestant line , ' & c . & c . ; and the crown shall continue to the heirs of her body , being Protestants . ' This ...
... sovereign lord King James the First , of happy memory , and is hereby declared to be the next in succession in the Protestant line , ' & c . & c . ; and the crown shall continue to the heirs of her body , being Protestants . ' This ...
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