The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play , without any sort of knowledge of the game . It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance , that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that crawls on earth ...
... called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play , without any sort of knowledge of the game . It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance , that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that crawls on earth ...
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... called in war to supply the defects of your political establishment . Nor would any disorder or disobedience to government which could arise from the most abject concession on our part , ever equal those which will be felt , after the ...
... called in war to supply the defects of your political establishment . Nor would any disorder or disobedience to government which could arise from the most abject concession on our part , ever equal those which will be felt , after the ...
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... called natural and much provoked , ) was the inevitable consequence . How this came to pass , the nation may be one day in an humour to inquire . All the attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in ...
... called natural and much provoked , ) was the inevitable consequence . How this came to pass , the nation may be one day in an humour to inquire . All the attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in ...
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... called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now called for form only . It sits for the purpose of making some polite ecclesiastical compliments to the king ; and , when that grace is said ...
... called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now called for form only . It sits for the purpose of making some polite ecclesiastical compliments to the king ; and , when that grace is said ...
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... called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies . In this manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our dependencies and filling them with blood and slaughter , are corrupting our ...
... called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies . In this manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our dependencies and filling them with blood and slaughter , are corrupting our ...
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