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Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve my activity for rational endeavours
; and I hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a
single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation .
Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve my activity for rational endeavours
; and I hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a
single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation .
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Nothing surely could be more lamentable to those who remember the flourishing
days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people ,
amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO
THE ...
Nothing surely could be more lamentable to those who remember the flourishing
days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people ,
amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO
THE ...
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the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe .
We behold ( and it seems some people rejoice in beholding ) our native land ,
which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours , reduced to a servile ...
the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe .
We behold ( and it seems some people rejoice in beholding ) our native land ,
which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours , reduced to a servile ...
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... the mere force of civil discretion , often conducted the affairs of great nations
with distinguished felicity and glory . When I first came into a public trust , I found
your parliament in possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies
.
... the mere force of civil discretion , often conducted the affairs of great nations
with distinguished felicity and glory . When I first came into a public trust , I found
your parliament in possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies
.
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But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly
inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some
satisfaction to their feelings more solid than a sophistical speculation on law and
...
But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly
inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some
satisfaction to their feelings more solid than a sophistical speculation on law and
...
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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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