Annual Register, Volume 62, Issue 2Edmund Burke 1822 - History |
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Page 675 - Spain all those secured to her. By pursuing this course, we shall rest on the sacred ground of right, sanctioned in the most solemn manner by Spain herself; by a treaty which she was bound to ratify ; for refusing to do which, she must incur the censure of other nations, even those most friendly to her, while, by confining ourselves within that limit, we cannot fail to obtain their well-merited approbation.