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43 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR
THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND
The EconoMICAL REFORMATION OF The Civil AND OTHER
ESTABLISHMENTS ...
43 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR
THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND
The EconoMICAL REFORMATION OF The Civil AND OTHER
ESTABLISHMENTS ...
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Where could any man , conscious of his own inability to act alone , and willing to
act as he ought to do , have arranged himself better ? If any one thinks this kind of
society to be taken up as the best method of gratifying low , personal pride , or ...
Where could any man , conscious of his own inability to act alone , and willing to
act as he ought to do , have arranged himself better ? If any one thinks this kind of
society to be taken up as the best method of gratifying low , personal pride , or ...
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It leads to practical passive obedience far better than all the doctrines which the
pliant accommodation of theology to power has ever produced . It cuts up by the
roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition .
It leads to practical passive obedience far better than all the doctrines which the
pliant accommodation of theology to power has ever produced . It cuts up by the
roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition .
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The fault I find in the scheme is , — that it falls extremely short of that liberality in
the commercial system , which , I trust , will one day be adopted . If I had not
considered the present resolutions merely as preparatory to better things , and as
a ...
The fault I find in the scheme is , — that it falls extremely short of that liberality in
the commercial system , which , I trust , will one day be adopted . If I had not
considered the present resolutions merely as preparatory to better things , and as
a ...
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true , that the superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the
necessities of a poor one . It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth
should be found everywhere . The true ground of fear , in my opinion , is this : that
...
true , that the superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the
necessities of a poor one . It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth
should be found everywhere . The true ground of fear , in my opinion , is this : that
...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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