The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 108
... mode that is al- together new , -one that is , indeed , wholly alien from all the ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for my purpose . The means proposed by the noble lord for ...
... mode that is al- together new , -one that is , indeed , wholly alien from all the ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for my purpose . The means proposed by the noble lord for ...
Page 110
... mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to man- hood than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . — I put this ...
... mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to man- hood than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . — I put this ...
Page 113
... mode of treat- ing them must have this proportion as its basis , or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry VOL . II . 8 over this great consideration . It is good for us ...
... mode of treat- ing them must have this proportion as its basis , or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry VOL . II . 8 over this great consideration . It is good for us ...
Page 117
... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people , —a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone of man- hood . When I contemplate these things ...
... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people , —a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone of man- hood . When I contemplate these things ...
Page 121
... their own case . It is not easy , indeed , to make a monopoly of theorems and corolla- ries . The fact is , that they did thus apply those gen- eral arguments ; and your mode of governing them , SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 121.
... their own case . It is not easy , indeed , to make a monopoly of theorems and corolla- ries . The fact is , that they did thus apply those gen- eral arguments ; and your mode of governing them , SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 121.
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