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... to consider the necessary reprisal of an unhappy , proscribed , interdicted
people , as the crime of piracy , would have appeared , in any other legislature
than ours ; a strain of the most insulting and most unnatural cruelty and injustice .
... to consider the necessary reprisal of an unhappy , proscribed , interdicted
people , as the crime of piracy , would have appeared , in any other legislature
than ours ; a strain of the most insulting and most unnatural cruelty and injustice .
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If we had adverted to this , we never could consider the convulsions of a great
empire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole
communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a people , as fit
matter of ...
If we had adverted to this , we never could consider the convulsions of a great
empire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole
communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a people , as fit
matter of ...
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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 ...
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But I would wish them , in this grave matter , and if peace is not wholly removed
from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate
never yet was the road to reconciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the
next ...
But I would wish them , in this grave matter , and if peace is not wholly removed
from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate
never yet was the road to reconciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the
next ...
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does not consist in being governed by laws , without considering what are the
laws , or who are the makers ; whether man has any rights by nature ; and
whether all the property he enjoys be not the alms of his government , and his life
itself ...
does not consist in being governed by laws , without considering what are the
laws , or who are the makers ; whether man has any rights by nature ; and
whether all the property he enjoys be not the alms of his government , and his life
itself ...
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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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