The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... hundred years elapsed before the government of India passed from the hands of the East India Company and came under the complete control of the Crown . The new Parliament met in May 1784 , and on June 14 Burke moved a Representation to ...
... hundred years elapsed before the government of India passed from the hands of the East India Company and came under the complete control of the Crown . The new Parliament met in May 1784 , and on June 14 Burke moved a Representation to ...
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... hundred . Applaud us when we run ; console us when we fall ; cheer us when we recover : but let us pass on - for God's sake , let us pass on ! Do you think , gentlemen , that every public act in the six years since I stood in this place ...
... hundred . Applaud us when we run ; console us when we fall ; cheer us when we recover : but let us pass on - for God's sake , let us pass on ! Do you think , gentlemen , that every public act in the six years since I stood in this place ...
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... hundred miles ' distance from Bristol ; and at the end of a session I come to my own house , fatigued in body and in mind , to a little repose , and to a very little attention to my family and my private concerns . A visit to Bristol is ...
... hundred miles ' distance from Bristol ; and at the end of a session I come to my own house , fatigued in body and in mind , to a little repose , and to a very little attention to my family and my private concerns . A visit to Bristol is ...
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... hundred times sunk and fainted within me at all the mischiefs brought upon those who bear the whole brunt of war in the heart of their country . Yet the Americans are utter strangers to me ; a nation among whom I am not sure that I have ...
... hundred times sunk and fainted within me at all the mischiefs brought upon those who bear the whole brunt of war in the heart of their country . Yet the Americans are utter strangers to me ; a nation among whom I am not sure that I have ...
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... hundred thousand souls . I do not at all exaggerate the number . A nation to be persecuted ! Whilst we were masters of the sea , embodied with America , and in alliance with half the powers of the Continent , we might perhaps , in that ...
... hundred thousand souls . I do not at all exaggerate the number . A nation to be persecuted ! Whilst we were masters of the sea , embodied with America , and in alliance with half the powers of the Continent , we might perhaps , in that ...
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