The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... kingdoms . Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument , either of state or beneficence , behind him . Were this country to be driven out of India this day , nothing would remain to tell that it had been ...
... kingdoms . Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument , either of state or beneficence , behind him . Were this country to be driven out of India this day , nothing would remain to tell that it had been ...
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... kingdom ( with whose formal thanks I was covered over ) , while I laboured on no less than five bills for a public reform , and fought against the opposition of great abilities , and of the greatest power , every clause , and every word ...
... kingdom ( with whose formal thanks I was covered over ) , while I laboured on no less than five bills for a public reform , and fought against the opposition of great abilities , and of the greatest power , every clause , and every word ...
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... kingdom , in prosperity and in affection , whatever remained of the empire . I was true to my old , standing , invariable principle , that all things which came from Great Britain should issue as a gift of her bounty and beneficence ...
... kingdom , in prosperity and in affection , whatever remained of the empire . I was true to my old , standing , invariable principle , that all things which came from Great Britain should issue as a gift of her bounty and beneficence ...
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... kingdom of Ireland was instantly in a flame . Threatened by foreigners , and , as they thought , insulted by England , they resolved at once to resist the power of France , and to cast off yours . As for us , we were able neither to ...
... kingdom of Ireland was instantly in a flame . Threatened by foreigners , and , as they thought , insulted by England , they resolved at once to resist the power of France , and to cast off yours . As for us , we were able neither to ...
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... kingdoms . To be pleased with my service was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I was an American , when , on the same principles , I wished you to concede to America at a time when she ...
... kingdoms . To be pleased with my service was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I was an American , when , on the same principles , I wished you to concede to America at a time when she ...
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