The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 72
... hand of Providence . Yet now , even now , I should confide in the prevailing virtue and efficacious operation of len- ity , though working in darkness and in chaos , in the midst of all this unnatural and turbid combination : I should ...
... hand of Providence . Yet now , even now , I should confide in the prevailing virtue and efficacious operation of len- ity , though working in darkness and in chaos , in the midst of all this unnatural and turbid combination : I should ...
Page 104
... hand : it would be expected that those who for many years had been active in such affairs should show that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the prin- ciples of colony government , and were capable of drawing out something ...
... hand : it would be expected that those who for many years had been active in such affairs should show that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the prin- ciples of colony government , and were capable of drawing out something ...
Page 111
... hand two accounts : one a compara- tive state of the export trade of England to its colo- nies , as it stood in the year 1704 , and as it stood in the year 1772 ; the other a state of the export trade of this country to its colonies ...
... hand two accounts : one a compara- tive state of the export trade of England to its colo- nies , as it stood in the year 1704 , and as it stood in the year 1772 ; the other a state of the export trade of this country to its colonies ...
Page 120
... hands . They are therefore not only devoted to lib- erty , but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible ...
... hands . They are therefore not only devoted to lib- erty , but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible ...
Page 122
... hand in hand with them , and received great favor and every kind of support from authority . The Church of England , too , was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government . But the dissenting in- terests have ...
... hand in hand with them , and received great favor and every kind of support from authority . The Church of England , too , was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government . But the dissenting in- terests have ...
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