The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 30
... thought necessary upon the narrow part of the subject , I have given him , I hope , a satisfactory an- swer . He next presses me , by a variety of direct challenges and oblique reflections , to say something on the historical part . I ...
... thought necessary upon the narrow part of the subject , I have given him , I hope , a satisfactory an- swer . He next presses me , by a variety of direct challenges and oblique reflections , to say something on the historical part . I ...
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... thought of departing from that choice until the period immediately on the close of the last war . Then a scheme of government , new in many things , seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or thought I saw , several symptoms of a great ...
... thought of departing from that choice until the period immediately on the close of the last war . Then a scheme of government , new in many things , seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or thought I saw , several symptoms of a great ...
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... thought themselves proceeded against as delinquents , or , at best , as people under suspicion of delinquency , and in such a manner as they imagined their recent services in the war did not at all merit . Any of these innumerable ...
... thought themselves proceeded against as delinquents , or , at best , as people under suspicion of delinquency , and in such a manner as they imagined their recent services in the war did not at all merit . Any of these innumerable ...
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... thought fit to make this apology for himself in the in- numerable debates that were had upon the subject . He might have proposed to the colony agents , that they should agree in some mode of taxation as the ground of an act of ...
... thought fit to make this apology for himself in the in- numerable debates that were had upon the subject . He might have proposed to the colony agents , that they should agree in some mode of taxation as the ground of an act of ...
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... thought fit to change his ministers . It stands upon no authority of mine . It is proved by uncontroverti- ble records . The honorable gentleman has desired some of us to lay our hands upon our hearts and an- swer to his queries upon ...
... thought fit to change his ministers . It stands upon no authority of mine . It is proved by uncontroverti- ble records . The honorable gentleman has desired some of us to lay our hands upon our hearts and an- swer to his queries upon ...
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