The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... whole people . ' And yet it was the same Burke . Calmer students have been able to notice his consis- tency , which was very far from being apparent to that generation . If only his facts had been correct ! ' I flatter myself that I ...
... whole people . ' And yet it was the same Burke . Calmer students have been able to notice his consis- tency , which was very far from being apparent to that generation . If only his facts had been correct ! ' I flatter myself that I ...
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... whole ? or to their oppressors who had kept them so long in a state of bondage ? ' Every newspaper recalled the murder of a seigneur ; but on the other side the sufferers were too ignoble to be known ; and the mass too indiscriminate to ...
... whole ? or to their oppressors who had kept them so long in a state of bondage ? ' Every newspaper recalled the murder of a seigneur ; but on the other side the sufferers were too ignoble to be known ; and the mass too indiscriminate to ...
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... whole stock of your eloquent acknowledgments for the Revolution Society ; when their fellows in the Constitutional were , in equity , entitled to some share . Since you have selected the Revolution Society as the great object of your ...
... whole stock of your eloquent acknowledgments for the Revolution Society ; when their fellows in the Constitutional were , in equity , entitled to some share . Since you have selected the Revolution Society as the great object of your ...
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... whole re- presentative majesty of the whole English nation . If what this society has thought proper to send forth had been a piece of argument , it would have signified little whose argument it was . It would be neither the more nor ...
... whole re- presentative majesty of the whole English nation . If what this society has thought proper to send forth had been a piece of argument , it would have signified little whose argument it was . It would be neither the more nor ...
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... so consistent , on the whole , with morals and piety , as to make it deserving not only of the secular applause of dashing Machiavelian politi- A GREAT CRISIS IN EUROPE 11 cians , but to 10 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
... so consistent , on the whole , with morals and piety , as to make it deserving not only of the secular applause of dashing Machiavelian politi- A GREAT CRISIS IN EUROPE 11 cians , but to 10 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
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