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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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We are heartily agreed in our detestation of a civil war . We have ever expressed
the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps which have led to it , and of
all those which tend to prolong it . And I have no doubt that we feel exactly the ...
We are heartily agreed in our detestation of a civil war . We have ever expressed
the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps which have led to it , and of
all those which tend to prolong it . And I have no doubt that we feel exactly the ...
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These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the
unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion
really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is difficult to define in
words ...
These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the
unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion
really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is difficult to define in
words ...
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But , unfortunately , it is the kind of slavery the most easily admitted in times of
civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their
desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the
entrance ...
But , unfortunately , it is the kind of slavery the most easily admitted in times of
civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their
desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the
entrance ...
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Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their
politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the natural taste and relish
of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile ...
Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their
politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the natural taste and relish
of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile ...
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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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