The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... liberty . In respect of Ire- land his only thought was to unite in prosperity and affection the people of that country to the empire , while from the Roman Catholics he strove to remove a Speech at Bristol previous to the Election in ...
... liberty . In respect of Ire- land his only thought was to unite in prosperity and affection the people of that country to the empire , while from the Roman Catholics he strove to remove a Speech at Bristol previous to the Election in ...
Page xii
... liberty . Burke was desirous of keeping the distemper of France from any countenance in England , and to this end he was prepared to abandon his best friends and join with his worst enemies to oppose either the means or the end . ' This ...
... liberty . Burke was desirous of keeping the distemper of France from any countenance in England , and to this end he was prepared to abandon his best friends and join with his worst enemies to oppose either the means or the end . ' This ...
Page 15
... liberty and humanity for my unhappy lapse . For , gentlemen , Lord Beauchamp's bill was a law of justice and policy , as far as it went ; I say as far as it went , for its fault was its being , in the remedial part , miserably defective ...
... liberty and humanity for my unhappy lapse . For , gentlemen , Lord Beauchamp's bill was a law of justice and policy , as far as it went ; I say as far as it went , for its fault was its being , in the remedial part , miserably defective ...
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... liberty to thousands ; and though it is not three years since the last act of grace passed , yet by Mr. Howard's last account , there were near three thou- sand again in jail . I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his ...
... liberty to thousands ; and though it is not three years since the last act of grace passed , yet by Mr. Howard's last account , there were near three thou- sand again in jail . I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his ...
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... liberty served in every way , and by all persons , by a manly adherence to its own principles . Whilst freedom is true to itself , every thing becomes subject to it ; and its very adversaries are an instrument in its hands . The party I ...
... liberty served in every way , and by all persons , by a manly adherence to its own principles . Whilst freedom is true to itself , every thing becomes subject to it ; and its very adversaries are an instrument in its hands . The party I ...
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