The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON ...
... HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON ...
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... House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it : and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does ex- press , and does carry ...
... House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it : and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does ex- press , and does carry ...
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... house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one inhabitant of three unoffending pro- vinces on the continent , every person coming from the East Indies ...
... house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one inhabitant of three unoffending pro- vinces on the continent , every person coming from the East Indies ...
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... House of Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control , as they are liberal in the vote ...
... House of Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control , as they are liberal in the vote ...
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... with the greatest regard and esteem , GENTLEMEN , Your most obedient and humble servant , Westminster , May 2 , 1778 . I send the bills . E. B. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( 54 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL .
... with the greatest regard and esteem , GENTLEMEN , Your most obedient and humble servant , Westminster , May 2 , 1778 . I send the bills . E. B. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( 54 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL .
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