The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page 8
... thing deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface . I must be tolerably sure , before I venture publicly to ... things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts , and is not likely THE REVOLUTION ...
... thing deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface . I must be tolerably sure , before I venture publicly to ... things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts , and is not likely THE REVOLUTION ...
Page 10
... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurb and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous modes ; and , apparently , by the most contemptible instruments . Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurb and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous modes ; and , apparently , by the most contemptible instruments . Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
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... things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency . His doctrines affect our constitution in its vital parts . He tells the Revolution Society , in this political sermon , that his majesty , ' is almost the only ...
... things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency . His doctrines affect our constitution in its vital parts . He tells the Revolution Society , in this political sermon , that his majesty , ' is almost the only ...
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... things were ripe to give effect to their claim . His majesty's heirs and successors , each in his time and order , will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his majesty has succeeded to that he wears ...
... things were ripe to give effect to their claim . His majesty's heirs and successors , each in his time and order , will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his majesty has succeeded to that he wears ...
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... things are in that lamentable condition , the nature of the disease is to indicate the remedy to those whom nature has qualified to administer in extremities this critical , ambiguous , bitter potion to a distempered state . Times , and ...
... things are in that lamentable condition , the nature of the disease is to indicate the remedy to those whom nature has qualified to administer in extremities this critical , ambiguous , bitter potion to a distempered state . Times , and ...
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