The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 27
... thing approaching to a censure on the motives of former parliaments to all those alterations , one fact is undoubted , -that under them the state of America has been kept in continual agitation . Every thing administered as remedy to ...
... thing approaching to a censure on the motives of former parliaments to all those alterations , one fact is undoubted , -that under them the state of America has been kept in continual agitation . Every thing administered as remedy to ...
Page 35
... thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is -- the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the ...
... thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is -- the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the ...
Page 47
... thing you fought for is not the thing which you you recover ; but depreciated , sunk , wasted , CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 47.
... thing you fought for is not the thing which you you recover ; but depreciated , sunk , wasted , CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 47.
Page 52
... thing were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government , religion would have given it a complete effect . Religion , always a principle of energy , in this new people is no way worn out or impaired ; and their mode of ...
... thing were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government , religion would have given it a complete effect . Religion , always a principle of energy , in this new people is no way worn out or impaired ; and their mode of ...
Page 68
... now embarrass us ; the second mode under consideration is , to prosecute that spirit in its overt acts , as criminal . At this proposition I must pause a moment . The The thing seems a great deal too big for my 68 SPEECH ON.
... now embarrass us ; the second mode under consideration is , to prosecute that spirit in its overt acts , as criminal . At this proposition I must pause a moment . The The thing seems a great deal too big for my 68 SPEECH ON.
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