The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... necessary to make out their just correspondence and connexion in trade , were of no use . The next year a feeble attempt was made to bring the thing into better shape . This attempt ( countenanced by the minister ) on the very first ...
... necessary to make out their just correspondence and connexion in trade , were of no use . The next year a feeble attempt was made to bring the thing into better shape . This attempt ( countenanced by the minister ) on the very first ...
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... necessary part of my public duty . For , gentlemen , it is not your fond desires or mine that can alter the nature of things ; by contending against which , what have we got , or shall ever get , but defeat and shame ? I did not obey ...
... necessary part of my public duty . For , gentlemen , it is not your fond desires or mine that can alter the nature of things ; by contending against which , what have we got , or shall ever get , but defeat and shame ? I did not obey ...
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... necessary to com- merce , which is inconsistent with justice . The principle of credit was not weakened by that bill . God forbid ! The enforcement of that credit was only put into the same public judicial hands on which we depend for ...
... necessary to com- merce , which is inconsistent with justice . The principle of credit was not weakened by that bill . God forbid ! The enforcement of that credit was only put into the same public judicial hands on which we depend for ...
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... necessary to his security , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit at all to the person who confined him . Take it as you will , we commit injustice . Now Lord Beauchamp's bill in- tended to do ...
... necessary to his security , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit at all to the person who confined him . Take it as you will , we commit injustice . Now Lord Beauchamp's bill in- tended to do ...
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... necessary to be said upon this matter . The calumny is fitter to be scrawled with the midnight chalk of incendiaries , with ' No popery ' , on walls and doors of devoted houses , than to be mentioned in any civilized company . I had ...
... necessary to be said upon this matter . The calumny is fitter to be scrawled with the midnight chalk of incendiaries , with ' No popery ' , on walls and doors of devoted houses , than to be mentioned in any civilized company . I had ...
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