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... NATION THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE of the Present DiscontentS SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • SPEECHES AT MR . BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL , AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE POLL · SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 185 ...
... NATION THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE of the Present DiscontentS SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • SPEECHES AT MR . BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL , AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE POLL · SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 185 ...
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Edmund Burke. The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder shocks than it had ever felt before ; and , through the chinks and breaches of our prison , we see such glimmerings of light , and feel such ...
Edmund Burke. The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation received much ruder shocks than it had ever felt before ; and , through the chinks and breaches of our prison , we see such glimmerings of light , and feel such ...
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... nations I Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned this part of his argument a little weakened ; but we do not think our- selves entitled ...
... nations I Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned this part of his argument a little weakened ; but we do not think our- selves entitled ...
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... nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which ...
... nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which ...
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... nations . The people are not only politically , but personally , slaves , and treated with the utmost indignity . The ... nation . In short , the regular and methodical proceedings of an aristocracy are more intoler- able than the very ...
... nations . The people are not only politically , but personally , slaves , and treated with the utmost indignity . The ... nation . In short , the regular and methodical proceedings of an aristocracy are more intoler- able than the very ...
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