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... CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON DECLINING THE POLL SPEECH ON THE EAST - INDIA BILL JAGE 1 43 55 • 127 170 173 · 249 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN ...
... CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON DECLINING THE POLL SPEECH ON THE EAST - INDIA BILL JAGE 1 43 55 • 127 170 173 · 249 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN ...
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... 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 same emotions of grief and shame in ...
... 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 same emotions of grief and shame in ...
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... civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually par- doned , the cartel ( whether avowed or understood ) is a cruel fraud ; for you have received the life of a man , and ...
... civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually par- doned , the cartel ( whether avowed or understood ) is a cruel fraud ; for you have received the life of a man , and ...
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... 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 of that injustice of which they are not to be the immediate ...
... 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 of that injustice of which they are not to be the immediate ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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