The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 75
... liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial rights of Great Britain , and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights , to be just the most recon- cilable things in the ...
... liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial rights of Great Britain , and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights , to be just the most recon- cilable things in the ...
Page 77
... liberty may be sufficiently reconciled through the whole , whether to serve a refining speculatist or a factious demagogue I know not , buČ› enough surely for the ease and happiness of man . - Sir , whilst we held this happy course , we ...
... liberty may be sufficiently reconciled through the whole , whether to serve a refining speculatist or a factious demagogue I know not , buČ› enough surely for the ease and happiness of man . - Sir , whilst we held this happy course , we ...
Page 86
... desire . I never mean to put any colonist , or any human creature , in a sit- uation not becoming a free man . To reconcile Brit- ish superiority with American liberty shall be my great object 86 SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL .
... desire . I never mean to put any colonist , or any human creature , in a sit- uation not becoming a free man . To reconcile Brit- ish superiority with American liberty shall be my great object 86 SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL .
Page 87
... liberty . To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only lib- erty , I mean is a liberty connected with order : that not only exists along ...
... liberty . To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only lib- erty , I mean is a liberty connected with order : that not only exists along ...
Page 109
... liberty of ob- serving to you ) some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judg ...
... liberty of ob- serving to you ) some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judg ...
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