The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... turning over the charmingly executed hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with ...
... turning over the charmingly executed hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with ...
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... turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of the earth in itself , though en- nobled by the singular events which had their rise in that country . This spot happened , it matters not here by what means , to become at several ...
... turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of the earth in itself , though en- nobled by the singular events which had their rise in that country . This spot happened , it matters not here by what means , to become at several ...
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... turn of reason he began to conceive a horror suitable to the guilt of such a murder . In this juncture , his council came to his assistance . But what did his council ? They found him out a philosopher who gave him comfort . And in what ...
... turn of reason he began to conceive a horror suitable to the guilt of such a murder . In this juncture , his council came to his assistance . But what did his council ? They found him out a philosopher who gave him comfort . And in what ...
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... turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient . In vain you tell me that artificial government is good , but that I fall out only with the abuse . The thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand ...
... turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient . In vain you tell me that artificial government is good , but that I fall out only with the abuse . The thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand ...
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... turns more upon some party - matter than upon the nature of the thing itself ; whether such a step will diminish or augment the power of the crown , or how far the privileges of the subject are likely to be extended or restricted by it ...
... turns more upon some party - matter than upon the nature of the thing itself ; whether such a step will diminish or augment the power of the crown , or how far the privileges of the subject are likely to be extended or restricted by it ...
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