The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... gentleman 1 deputed on this business stands directly before me . To him I appeal , whether I did not , though it militated with my oldest and my most recent public opinions , deliver the petition with a strong , and more than usual ...
... gentleman 1 deputed on this business stands directly before me . To him I appeal , whether I did not , though it militated with my oldest and my most recent public opinions , deliver the petition with a strong , and more than usual ...
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... - sand again in jail . I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind . BURKE . III C He has visited all Europe , -not to survey the.
... - sand again in jail . I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind . BURKE . III C He has visited all Europe , -not to survey the.
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... Gentleman , bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny . In such a country as this they are of all bad things the worst , worse by far than any where else ; and they derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the ...
... Gentleman , bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny . In such a country as this they are of all bad things the worst , worse by far than any where else ; and they derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the ...
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... gentleman , and have seen him in all situations . He is a true genius ; with an understanding vigorous , and acute , and refined , and distinguishing even to excess ; and illuminated with a most unbounded , peculiar , and original cast ...
... gentleman , and have seen him in all situations . He is a true genius ; with an understanding vigorous , and acute , and refined , and distinguishing even to excess ; and illuminated with a most unbounded , peculiar , and original cast ...
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... Gentlemen , America - when the English nation seemed to be dangerously , if not irrecoverably divided ; when one ... gentleman of that persuasion , of note or property in England . At such a crisis , nothing but a decided resolution ...
... Gentlemen , America - when the English nation seemed to be dangerously , if not irrecoverably divided ; when one ... gentleman of that persuasion , of note or property in England . At such a crisis , nothing but a decided resolution ...
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