The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... least secure their interest . Depend upon it , that the lovers of freedom will be free . None will violate their conscience to please us , in order after- wards to discharge that conscience , which they have violated , by doing us ...
... least secure their interest . Depend upon it , that the lovers of freedom will be free . None will violate their conscience to please us , in order after- wards to discharge that conscience , which they have violated , by doing us ...
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... least appearance of insulting you with that show of superiority , which , though it may not be assumed , is generally suspected in a time of calamity , from those whose previous warnings have been despised . I could not bear to show you ...
... least appearance of insulting you with that show of superiority , which , though it may not be assumed , is generally suspected in a time of calamity , from those whose previous warnings have been despised . I could not bear to show you ...
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... struggling litigant ; or at least , that if your beneficence obtained no credit in your concessions , yet that they should appear the salutary provisions of your wisdom and foresight ; not as things wrung from you with your.
... struggling litigant ; or at least , that if your beneficence obtained no credit in your concessions , yet that they should appear the salutary provisions of your wisdom and foresight ; not as things wrung from you with your.
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... least error , the least trespass on the right or left , would have hurried down the precipice into an abyss of blood and confusion , the people of Ireland demand a freedom of trade with arms in their hands . They interdict all commerce ...
... least error , the least trespass on the right or left , would have hurried down the precipice into an abyss of blood and confusion , the people of Ireland demand a freedom of trade with arms in their hands . They interdict all commerce ...
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... least to sixteen or seventeen 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 ...
... least to sixteen or seventeen 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 ...
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