The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 59
... late a date , were sent from other governors , and all directed to Lord Halifax . Not one of these letters indicates the slightest idea of a change , either known or even apprehended . Thus are blown away the insect race of courtly ...
... late a date , were sent from other governors , and all directed to Lord Halifax . Not one of these letters indicates the slightest idea of a change , either known or even apprehended . Thus are blown away the insect race of courtly ...
Page 65
... late has been the rapid succession of public men ) who never saw that prodigy , Charles Townshend , nor of course know what a ferment he was able to excite in everything by the violent ebullition of his mixed vir tues and failings . For ...
... late has been the rapid succession of public men ) who never saw that prodigy , Charles Townshend , nor of course know what a ferment he was able to excite in everything by the violent ebullition of his mixed vir tues and failings . For ...
Page 77
... late nor how to extract . - I charge , therefore , to this new and unfortunate sys- tem the loss not only of peace , of union , and of com- merce , but even of revenue , which its friends are contending for . It is morally certain that ...
... late nor how to extract . - I charge , therefore , to this new and unfortunate sys- tem the loss not only of peace , of union , and of com- merce , but even of revenue , which its friends are contending for . It is morally certain that ...
Page 117
... late carried on the whale - fishery . Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice , and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits , whilst we are look- ing for them ...
... late carried on the whale - fishery . Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice , and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits , whilst we are look- ing for them ...
Page 129
... late experience has taught us that many of those fundamental principles formerly be- lieved infallible are either not of the importance they were imagined to be , or that we have not at all ad- verted to some other far more important ...
... late experience has taught us that many of those fundamental principles formerly be- lieved infallible are either not of the importance they were imagined to be , or that we have not at all ad- verted to some other far more important ...
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