The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 45
... able , and with great openness : I have nothing to conceal . In the year sixty - five , being in a very private station , far enough from any line of business , and not having the honor of a seat in this House , it was my fortune ...
... able , and with great openness : I have nothing to conceal . In the year sixty - five , being in a very private station , far enough from any line of business , and not having the honor of a seat in this House , it was my fortune ...
Page 58
... able to resist the distempered vigor and insane alac- rity with which you are rushing to your ruin . But it does so happen , that the falsity of this circulation is ( like the rest ) demonstrated by indisputable dates and records . So ...
... able to resist the distempered vigor and insane alac- rity with which you are rushing to your ruin . But it does so happen , that the falsity of this circulation is ( like the rest ) demonstrated by indisputable dates and records . So ...
Page 60
... able fully to effect . " Would to God that this temper had been cultivat ed , managed , and set in action ! Other effects than those which we have since felt would have resulted from it . On the requisition for compensation to those who ...
... able fully to effect . " Would to God that this temper had been cultivat ed , managed , and set in action ! Other effects than those which we have since felt would have resulted from it . On the requisition for compensation to those who ...
Page 65
... able to excite in everything by the violent ebullition of his mixed vir tues and failings . For failings he had undoubtedly , many of us remember them ; we are this day con- sidering the effect of them . But he had no failings which ...
... able to excite in everything by the violent ebullition of his mixed vir tues and failings . For failings he had undoubtedly , many of us remember them ; we are this day con- sidering the effect of them . But he had no failings which ...
Page 66
... able gentleman were settled : resolutions leading to the repeal . The next day he voted for that repeal ; and he would have spoken for it , too , if an illness ( not , as was then given out , a political , but , to my knowledge , a very ...
... able gentleman were settled : resolutions leading to the repeal . The next day he voted for that repeal ; and he would have spoken for it , too , if an illness ( not , as was then given out , a political , but , to my knowledge , a very ...
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