The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... nation cannot be justified under any form it may assume . I am satisfied beyond a doubt , that the project of turning a great empire into a vestry , or into a collection of vestries , and of governing it in the spirit of a parochial ...
... nation cannot be justified under any form it may assume . I am satisfied beyond a doubt , that the project of turning a great empire into a vestry , or into a collection of vestries , and of governing it in the spirit of a parochial ...
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... nation is sick , very sick , by their medicines . But the charlatan tells them that what is past can- not be helped ; -they have taken the draught , and they must wait its operation with patience ; that the first effects , indeed , are ...
... nation is sick , very sick , by their medicines . But the charlatan tells them that what is past can- not be helped ; -they have taken the draught , and they must wait its operation with patience ; that the first effects , indeed , are ...
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... nation , and indeed of all nations who are spectators , we have seen , on the cred- it of those very practices and principles , and to carry them further into effect , these very men placed on the sacred seat of justice in the capital ...
... nation , and indeed of all nations who are spectators , we have seen , on the cred- it of those very practices and principles , and to carry them further into effect , these very men placed on the sacred seat of justice in the capital ...
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... nation to the government of King William so much as the care he took to fill the vacant bishoprics with men who had attracted the public esteem by their learning , eloquence , and piety , and above all , by their known moderation in the ...
... nation to the government of King William so much as the care he took to fill the vacant bishoprics with men who had attracted the public esteem by their learning , eloquence , and piety , and above all , by their known moderation in the ...
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... nation , whom we will keep ; but we have of the same tribe others of a very different description , — housebreakers , and receivers of stolen goods , and forgers of paper currency , more than we can conven- iently hang . These we can ...
... nation , whom we will keep ; but we have of the same tribe others of a very different description , — housebreakers , and receivers of stolen goods , and forgers of paper currency , more than we can conven- iently hang . These we can ...
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