The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... Lords threw out the measure . This gave the King the oppor- tunity he desired of getting rid of a distasteful ministry and he immediately called upon the ministers to deliver up their seals of office . Nearly a hundred years elapsed ...
... Lords threw out the measure . This gave the King the oppor- tunity he desired of getting rid of a distasteful ministry and he immediately called upon the ministers to deliver up their seals of office . Nearly a hundred years elapsed ...
Page xiv
... Lord Byron , alone with Lord Chatham approached the standard of perfection . No man was heard more acceptably in the House , or was treated with such deference by his opponents ; and if at times his speeches suffered from their length ...
... Lord Byron , alone with Lord Chatham approached the standard of perfection . No man was heard more acceptably in the House , or was treated with such deference by his opponents ; and if at times his speeches suffered from their length ...
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... Lord Beauchamp's debtors ' bills ; and my votes on the late affairs of the Roman Catholics . All of these ( except perhaps the first ) relate to matters of very considerable public concern ; and it is not lest you should censure me ...
... Lord Beauchamp's debtors ' bills ; and my votes on the late affairs of the Roman Catholics . All of these ( except perhaps the first ) relate to matters of very considerable public concern ; and it is not lest you should censure me ...
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... Lord Suffolk , to whom he was then under secretary of state ; from the office of that Lord Suffolk , who but a few weeks before , in his place in parliament , did not deign to inquire where a congress of vagrants was to be found . This Lord ...
... Lord Suffolk , to whom he was then under secretary of state ; from the office of that Lord Suffolk , who but a few weeks before , in his place in parliament , did not deign to inquire where a congress of vagrants was to be found . This Lord ...
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... Lord Beauchamp's bill . I mean his bill of last session , for reforming the law - process concerning im- prisonment ... Lord Beauchamp's bill , as a disrespectful treatment of your petition , when you hear , that out of respect for you ...
... Lord Beauchamp's bill . I mean his bill of last session , for reforming the law - process concerning im- prisonment ... Lord Beauchamp's bill , as a disrespectful treatment of your petition , when you hear , that out of respect for you ...
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