The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 121
... House of Commons : they went much further : they attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that in theory it ought to be so , from the particular nature of a House of Commons , as an immediate representative of the people , whether the ...
... House of Commons : they went much further : they attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that in theory it ought to be so , from the particular nature of a House of Commons , as an immediate representative of the people , whether the ...
Page 146
... House of Commons , gave us at least an House of Commons of weight and consequence . But your ancestors did not churlishly sit down alone to the feast of Magna Charta . Ireland was made immediately a partaker . This benefit of English ...
... House of Commons , gave us at least an House of Commons of weight and consequence . But your ancestors did not churlishly sit down alone to the feast of Magna Charta . Ireland was made immediately a partaker . This benefit of English ...
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... House of Commons , trust to the principle which has raised so mighty a revenue , and accumulated a debt of near 140 millions in this country ? Is this principle to be true in England and false everywhere else ? Is it not true in Ireland ...
... House of Commons , trust to the principle which has raised so mighty a revenue , and accumulated a debt of near 140 millions in this country ? Is this principle to be true in England and false everywhere else ? Is it not true in Ireland ...
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... House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it ; and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does express , and does carry ...
... House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it ; and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does express , and does carry ...
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... House of Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control as they are liberal in the vote of ...
... House of Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control as they are liberal in the vote of ...
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