The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... influences , the unauthorized , but not disavowed , use of His Majesty's name , which led to the recent disso- lution . He admits it is the undoubted prerogative of the Crown to dissolve Parliament , but it is the most critical and ...
... influences , the unauthorized , but not disavowed , use of His Majesty's name , which led to the recent disso- lution . He admits it is the undoubted prerogative of the Crown to dissolve Parliament , but it is the most critical and ...
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... influence to keep their people in such a state of forbearance and quiet , as , when I look back , fills me with astonishment ; but not with astonishment only . Their merits on that occasion ought not to be forgotten : nor will they ...
... influence to keep their people in such a state of forbearance and quiet , as , when I look back , fills me with astonishment ; but not with astonishment only . Their merits on that occasion ought not to be forgotten : nor will they ...
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... influenced by the one , and by the other . But But they tell us , that those our fellow - citizens , whose chains we have a little relaxed , are enemies to liberty and our free constitution . - Not enemies , I presume , to their own ...
... influenced by the one , and by the other . But But they tell us , that those our fellow - citizens , whose chains we have a little relaxed , are enemies to liberty and our free constitution . - Not enemies , I presume , to their own ...
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... influence , or a minister of the people ; from Jacob , or from Esau ' . I asked my- self , and I asked myself nothing else , what part of it 1 An allusion made by Mr. Powis . OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED 57 was fit for a member of parliament ...
... influence , or a minister of the people ; from Jacob , or from Esau ' . I asked my- self , and I asked myself nothing else , what part of it 1 An allusion made by Mr. Powis . OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED 57 was fit for a member of parliament ...
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... the effects which this plan of reform for Indian administration may have on the privileges of great public bodies in England ; from its probable influence on the con- 1 Mr. Pitt . stitutional rights , or on the freedom and integrity of.
... the effects which this plan of reform for Indian administration may have on the privileges of great public bodies in England ; from its probable influence on the con- 1 Mr. Pitt . stitutional rights , or on the freedom and integrity of.
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