The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... wish myself to be solicited about them . They are of too little con- sequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was from attention to you , and to you only , that I hesitated at the time when you first desired to ...
... wish myself to be solicited about them . They are of too little con- sequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was from attention to you , and to you only , that I hesitated at the time when you first desired to ...
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... wish to com- municate more largely what was at first intended only for your private satisfaction . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epistolary ...
... wish to com- municate more largely what was at first intended only for your private satisfaction . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epistolary ...
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... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution , they know how to acknowledge the one , and to disavow the other . They may do it : I cannot . For my part , I looked on that sermon as the public declaration of a man much connected with ...
... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution , they know how to acknowledge the one , and to disavow the other . They may do it : I cannot . For my part , I looked on that sermon as the public declaration of a man much connected with ...
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... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , con- cerning the principle of a right in the people to choose ; which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered ...
... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , con- cerning the principle of a right in the people to choose ; which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered ...
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... wish , in effect , to re- call King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties , into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral ...
... wish , in effect , to re- call King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties , into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral ...
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