The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page vi
... Repeal of the Marriage Act Speech on a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill to quiet the Possessions of the Subjects against dormant Claims of the Church • PAGE 352 364 383 388 6 PREFACE IN 1774 Burke had been elected for Bristol vi ...
... Repeal of the Marriage Act Speech on a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill to quiet the Possessions of the Subjects against dormant Claims of the Church • PAGE 352 364 383 388 6 PREFACE IN 1774 Burke had been elected for Bristol vi ...
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... claims of the Church . Writing of Burke's speech with respect to the former , Horace Walpole said , ' he spoke with a choice and variety of language , a profusion of metaphors , and yet with a cor- rectness of diction that were ...
... claims of the Church . Writing of Burke's speech with respect to the former , Horace Walpole said , ' he spoke with a choice and variety of language , a profusion of metaphors , and yet with a cor- rectness of diction that were ...
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... claim your approbation , not to amuse you with vain apologies , or with professions still more vain and senseless . I have lived too long to be served by apologies , or to stand in need of them . The part I have acted has been in open ...
... claim your approbation , not to amuse you with vain apologies , or with professions still more vain and senseless . I have lived too long to be served by apologies , or to stand in need of them . The part I have acted has been in open ...
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... claims recovered against a struggling litigant ; or at least , that if your beneficence obtained no credit in your concessions , yet that they should appear the salutary provisions of your wisdom and foresight ; not as things wrung from ...
... claims recovered against a struggling litigant ; or at least , that if your beneficence obtained no credit in your concessions , yet that they should appear the salutary provisions of your wisdom and foresight ; not as things wrung from ...
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... claim of prerogative , pre - eminence , and authority . Instead of requiring it from me , as a point of duty , to kindle with your passions , had you all been as cool as I was , you would have been saved from disgraces and distresses ...
... claim of prerogative , pre - eminence , and authority . Instead of requiring it from me , as a point of duty , to kindle with your passions , had you all been as cool as I was , you would have been saved from disgraces and distresses ...
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