The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... less formality , according to her discre- tion , to acknowledge this new system ; or she may recog- nize it as a government de facto , setting aside all discussion of its original legality , and considering the antient monarchy as at an ...
... less formality , according to her discre- tion , to acknowledge this new system ; or she may recog- nize it as a government de facto , setting aside all discussion of its original legality , and considering the antient monarchy as at an ...
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... less in human nature . The antient world has furnished a strong and striking instance of such a ground for faction , full as powerful and full as mischievous as our spirit of religious system had ever been , exciting in all the states ...
... less in human nature . The antient world has furnished a strong and striking instance of such a ground for faction , full as powerful and full as mischievous as our spirit of religious system had ever been , exciting in all the states ...
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... less powerful in their operation , when they had no direct point of doctrine , either religious or civil , to assert . For a long time , however , those factions gave no small degree of influ- ence to the foreign chiefs in every ...
... less powerful in their operation , when they had no direct point of doctrine , either religious or civil , to assert . For a long time , however , those factions gave no small degree of influ- ence to the foreign chiefs in every ...
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... less than an amazing conquest wrought by a change of opinion , in a great part ( to be sure far from altogether ) very sudden , I cannot help let- ting my thoughts run along with their designs , and without attending to geographical ...
... less than an amazing conquest wrought by a change of opinion , in a great part ( to be sure far from altogether ) very sudden , I cannot help let- ting my thoughts run along with their designs , and without attending to geographical ...
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... less felt whilst the Pontificate drew riches from abroad , which in some measure counterbalanced the evils of their remiss and job- bish government at home . But now it can subsist only on the resources of domestick management ; and ...
... less felt whilst the Pontificate drew riches from abroad , which in some measure counterbalanced the evils of their remiss and job- bish government at home . But now it can subsist only on the resources of domestick management ; and ...
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