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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 126
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. ; but a Declaratory Act was introduced, asserting...Parliament to make laws which should " bind the colo freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to ...

George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...of liberty." Compromise. — It was in the speech just referred to that Mr. Burke also remarked : " We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon...our constitution, or even the whole of it together. . . This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All government — indeed, every human benefit...
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An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to ...

George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...of liberty." Compromise. — It was in the speech just referred to that Mr. Burke also remarked : " We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon...our constitution, or even the whole of it together. . . This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All government — indeed, every human benefit...
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Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund Burke

Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund Burke

Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 340 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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British Eloquence, Volume 1

Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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Representative British Orations: With Introductions and ..., Volume 1

Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct, or their expressions, in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is besides a very great mistake to imagine, that...or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and 15 logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given...
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Select Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 400 pages
...to imagine, that mankind fo\\ow up practically any speculative principle, either of go-veriM»<?/?/ or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and...logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the f>TincJpJes upon which we support any given part of our Constitution; or even the whole of it together....
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