The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 71
... course . The spirit of practicability , of moderation , and mutual convenience will never call in geometrical exactness as the arbitrator of an amicable settlement . Consult and follow your experience . Let not the long story with which ...
... course . The spirit of practicability , of moderation , and mutual convenience will never call in geometrical exactness as the arbitrator of an amicable settlement . Consult and follow your experience . Let not the long story with which ...
Page 77
... course , we drew more from the colonies than all the impotent violence of despotism ever could extort from them . We did this abundantly in the last war ; it has never been once denied ; and what reason have we to imagine that the ...
... course , we drew more from the colonies than all the impotent violence of despotism ever could extort from them . We did this abundantly in the last war ; it has never been once denied ; and what reason have we to imagine that the ...
Page 106
... course and in its ordinary haunts . It is peace sought in the spirit of peace , and laid in principles purely pacific . I propose , by removing the ground of the difference , and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the ...
... course and in its ordinary haunts . It is peace sought in the spirit of peace , and laid in principles purely pacific . I propose , by removing the ground of the difference , and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the ...
Page 111
... course of enlightened and discriminating expe- rience . Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail , if a great part of the mem- bers who now fill the House had not the misfortune to be absent when he ...
... course of enlightened and discriminating expe- rience . Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail , if a great part of the mem- bers who now fill the House had not the misfortune to be absent when he ...
Page 115
... course of a single life ! " If this state of his country had been foretold to him , would it not re- quire all the sanguine credulity of youth , and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm , to make him believe it ? Fortunate man , he has ...
... course of a single life ! " If this state of his country had been foretold to him , would it not re- quire all the sanguine credulity of youth , and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm , to make him believe it ? Fortunate man , he has ...
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