The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 64
... observe a distinction , which if I did not lay down so perfectly as I ought , I hope I shall now be able to mark it out with sufficient exactness and perspi- cuity . First , I beg leave to observe , that what I shall think ne- cessary ...
... observe a distinction , which if I did not lay down so perfectly as I ought , I hope I shall now be able to mark it out with sufficient exactness and perspi- cuity . First , I beg leave to observe , that what I shall think ne- cessary ...
Page 80
... observe , that in this conference , as stated by him- self , these reasons and apologies for it did not appear , nor did they appear in the letter , nor any where else , till next year when he came upon his trial . Then it was immedi ...
... observe , that in this conference , as stated by him- self , these reasons and apologies for it did not appear , nor did they appear in the letter , nor any where else , till next year when he came upon his trial . Then it was immedi ...
Page 85
... observing , with the progress of these plots , one thing , which has constantly and uniformly pervaded the whole of these projects , and which the persons concerned in them have avowed as a principle of their actions - that they were ...
... observing , with the progress of these plots , one thing , which has constantly and uniformly pervaded the whole of these projects , and which the persons concerned in them have avowed as a principle of their actions - that they were ...
Page 95
... observe , that this new sale of the office of ministers succeeded to the sale of that of nabobs . All these varied and successive sales shook the country to pieces . As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of ...
... observe , that this new sale of the office of ministers succeeded to the sale of that of nabobs . All these varied and successive sales shook the country to pieces . As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of ...
Page 140
... observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system , which brought on all the ...
... observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system , which brought on all the ...
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