The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... become more shamelessly corrupt , and the electors more venal , while it would utterly destroy the sobriety , industry , integrity , and simplicity of all the people . Further , he set his face against any reform of the representa- tion ...
... become more shamelessly corrupt , and the electors more venal , while it would utterly destroy the sobriety , industry , integrity , and simplicity of all the people . Further , he set his face against any reform of the representa- tion ...
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... become me , by an unseasonable importunity , to appear diffident of the fact of my six years ' endeavour to please you . I had served the city of Bristol honour- ably , and the city of Bristol had no reason to think that the means of ...
... become me , by an unseasonable importunity , to appear diffident of the fact of my six years ' endeavour to please you . I had served the city of Bristol honour- ably , and the city of Bristol had no reason to think that the means of ...
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... becomes subject to it ; and its very adversaries are an instrument in its hands . The party I speak of ( like some amongst us who would disparage the best friends of their country ) resolved to make the king either violate his ...
... becomes subject to it ; and its very adversaries are an instrument in its hands . The party I speak of ( like some amongst us who would disparage the best friends of their country ) resolved to make the king either violate his ...
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... becomes so wise a man . I know that he inclines to a sort of disgust , mixed with a considerable degree of asperity , to the system ; and he has few , or rather no habits with any of its professors . What he has done was on quite other ...
... becomes so wise a man . I know that he inclines to a sort of disgust , mixed with a considerable degree of asperity , to the system ; and he has few , or rather no habits with any of its professors . What he has done was on quite other ...
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... becoming readiness to recog- nize , by protection , the undoubted dutiful behaviour of those whom we had but too long punished for offences of presumption or conjecture . But for what end was that bill to linger beyond the usual period ...
... becoming readiness to recog- nize , by protection , the undoubted dutiful behaviour of those whom we had but too long punished for offences of presumption or conjecture . But for what end was that bill to linger beyond the usual period ...
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