The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1902 |
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... parliament which knew , when it attempted to set limits to the royal authority , how to set limits to its own . Evils we have had continually calling for reformation , and reform- ations more grievous than any evils . Our boasted ...
... parliament which knew , when it attempted to set limits to the royal authority , how to set limits to its own . Evils we have had continually calling for reformation , and reform- ations more grievous than any evils . Our boasted ...
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... parliament . They firmly adhered to those friends of liberty , who had run all hazards in its cause ; and provided for them in preference to every other claim . With the Earl of Bute they had no personal connexion ; no correspondence of ...
... parliament . They firmly adhered to those friends of liberty , who had run all hazards in its cause ; and provided for them in preference to every other claim . With the Earl of Bute they had no personal connexion ; no correspondence of ...
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... parliament was pleased to approve the treaty of peace with- out calling for the correspondence concerning it . How just this sarcasm on that parliament may be , I say not ; but how becoming in the author , I leave it to his friends to ...
... parliament was pleased to approve the treaty of peace with- out calling for the correspondence concerning it . How just this sarcasm on that parliament may be , I say not ; but how becoming in the author , I leave it to his friends to ...
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... parliament voted £ 650,000 towards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the discharge of bills carrying interest ; because part of the debt due on seamen's wages must have been paid , and some bills ...
... parliament voted £ 650,000 towards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the discharge of bills carrying interest ; because part of the debt due on seamen's wages must have been paid , and some bills ...
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... parliament : but in the inquiry be- Navy Army Ordnance The four American governments General surveys in America £ 1,450,900 1,268,500 174,600 19,200 1,600 Foundling Hospital 38,000 To the African committee 13,000 For the civil ...
... parliament : but in the inquiry be- Navy Army Ordnance The four American governments General surveys in America £ 1,450,900 1,268,500 174,600 19,200 1,600 Foundling Hospital 38,000 To the African committee 13,000 For the civil ...
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Page 512 - Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. 3*. 6d. Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. 5*.
Page 460 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 506 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 445 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 91 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 466 - in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, — and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 506 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.