The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page ix
... direct disavowal of obe- dience to any authority at home , and without any fixed maxim , principle , or rule of proceeding to guide them in India , is at present the state of your charter - govern- ment over great kingdoms . Every other ...
... direct disavowal of obe- dience to any authority at home , and without any fixed maxim , principle , or rule of proceeding to guide them in India , is at present the state of your charter - govern- ment over great kingdoms . Every other ...
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... direct tendency ; and it was made in the manner which I have related to you . I will now tell you by whom the bill of repeal was brought into parliament . I find it has been in- dustriously given out in this city ( from kindness to me ...
... direct tendency ; and it was made in the manner which I have related to you . I will now tell you by whom the bill of repeal was brought into parliament . I find it has been in- dustriously given out in this city ( from kindness to me ...
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... direct tendency of which was to cut off all retreat ; and to render them peculiarly obnoxious to an invader of their own communion . The address showed what I long languished to see , that all the subjects of England had cast off all ...
... direct tendency of which was to cut off all retreat ; and to render them peculiarly obnoxious to an invader of their own communion . The address showed what I long languished to see , that all the subjects of England had cast off all ...
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... direct train of doing , was in their original scheme , I cannot say ; I hope it was not : but this would have been the un- avoidable consequence of their proceedings , had not the flames they had lighted up in their fury been ex ...
... direct train of doing , was in their original scheme , I cannot say ; I hope it was not : but this would have been the un- avoidable consequence of their proceedings , had not the flames they had lighted up in their fury been ex ...
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... direct con- trary . Parliament was too slow . They took fourscore years to deliberate on the repeal of an act which ought not to have survived a second session . When at length , after a procrastination of near a century , the business ...
... direct con- trary . Parliament was too slow . They took fourscore years to deliberate on the repeal of an act which ought not to have survived a second session . When at length , after a procrastination of near a century , the business ...
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