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Page 11
By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light , the whole body
of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us . The very names of affection and
kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new ...
By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light , the whole body
of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us . The very names of affection and
kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new ...
Page 21
It is a powerful corrective to such a very rational cause of fear , if the inferior body
can be made to believe , that the party inclination , or political views , of several in
the principal state , will induce them in some degree to counteract this blind ...
It is a powerful corrective to such a very rational cause of fear , if the inferior body
can be made to believe , that the party inclination , or political views , of several in
the principal state , will induce them in some degree to counteract this blind ...
Page 25
... origin from things done in parliament , and as the acts passed there had
provoked the war , that the foundations of peace should be laid in parliament also
. I have been astonished to find , that those , whose zeal for the dignity of our
body ...
... origin from things done in parliament , and as the acts passed there had
provoked the war , that the foundations of peace should be laid in parliament also
. I have been astonished to find , that those , whose zeal for the dignity of our
body ...
Page 26
I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect
and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but
principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I
mean the ...
I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect
and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but
principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I
mean the ...
Page 35
I parted with it , as with a limb ; but as a limb to save the body ; and I would have
parted with more , if more had been necessary ; anything rather than a fruitless ,
hopeless , unnatural civil war . This mode of yielding would , it is said , give way
to ...
I parted with it , as with a limb ; but as a limb to save the body ; and I would have
parted with more , if more had been necessary ; anything rather than a fruitless ,
hopeless , unnatural civil war . This mode of yielding would , it is said , give way
to ...
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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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