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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... - Page 274
by Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the ..., Volume 2

Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 428 pages
...rank and privilege. Not seeing there that, free" dom, as in countries where it is a common bless" ing, may be united with much abject toil, with " great...them like something that is " more noble and liberal. Thus, the people of the " southern colonies of America, are much more ' " strongly, and with a higher...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...seeing there that freedom (as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air,) may be united with much abject toil,...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks amongst them like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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Thoughts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and Civilization of Africa ...

Joseph Marryat - Africa - 1816 - 286 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a* " common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, " may be united with much abject toil,...them like something that is more noble and liberal. "' Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were " our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 15

England - 1824 - 758 pages
...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with...them like something that is more noble and liberal. Such were all the ancient commonwealth!); such were our Gothic ancestors ; such, in our days were the...
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