The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of Commons, and in Westminster-Hall, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... thing if 200 peers should have it in their power to defeat by their negative what had been done by the people of England . He concluded by observing , that if the measures of the late parliament were unconstitu- tional , they ought to ...
... thing if 200 peers should have it in their power to defeat by their negative what had been done by the people of England . He concluded by observing , that if the measures of the late parliament were unconstitu- tional , they ought to ...
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... thing concerning the existence of a balance of those rights , privileges , and prerogatives ; nor are they able to discern to what objects ministers would apply their fiction of balance , nor what they would consider as a just one ...
... thing concerning the existence of a balance of those rights , privileges , and prerogatives ; nor are they able to discern to what objects ministers would apply their fiction of balance , nor what they would consider as a just one ...
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... thing was necessarily discussed on principles fit to be openly and publicly avowed , and which could not be retracted or varied without danger , furnished a ground of confidence in the public faith , which the engagement of no state ...
... thing was necessarily discussed on principles fit to be openly and publicly avowed , and which could not be retracted or varied without danger , furnished a ground of confidence in the public faith , which the engagement of no state ...
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... thing relating to them , as to our discretion shall seem fit : and we assert and maintain , that therein we follow , and do not innovate on the constitution . " That his majesty's ministers , misled by their ambition , have endeavoured ...
... thing relating to them , as to our discretion shall seem fit : and we assert and maintain , that therein we follow , and do not innovate on the constitution . " That his majesty's ministers , misled by their ambition , have endeavoured ...
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... thing is unsound ; it is ruinous in every part . It is infested by the dry rot , and ready to tumble about our ears without their immediate help . You know by the faults they find , what are their ideas of the alter- ation . As all ...
... thing is unsound ; it is ruinous in every part . It is infested by the dry rot , and ready to tumble about our ears without their immediate help . You know by the faults they find , what are their ideas of the alter- ation . As all ...
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Page 360 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 478 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 457 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Page 70 - See on these ruby lips the trembling breath, These cheeks now fading at the blast of death ; Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more.
Page 333 - ... 2. That it is the opinion of this committee, That it is the right and duty of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain now assembled, and lawfully, fully, and freely, representing all the estates of the people of this realm, to provide the means of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority...
Page 130 - Does any of you think that England, so wasted, would, under such a nursing attendance, so rapidly and cheaply recover ? But he is meanly acquainted with either England or India, who does not know that England would a thousand times sooner resume population, fertility, and what ought to be the ultimate secretion from both, revenue, than such a country as the Carnatic. The Carnatic is not by the bounty of nature a fertile soil. The general size of its cattle is proof enough that it is much otherwise....
Page 129 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder AH and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see...
Page 91 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and well-proportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and A just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Page 164 - For appointing Commissioners to inquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments which are or lately have been received in the several public offices to be therein mentioned; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same; and to report such observations as shall occur to them for the better concluding and managing the business transacted in the said offices.
Page 433 - French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. They had done their business for us as rivals, in a way in which twenty Ramilies or Blenheims could never have done it.