The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... consider the necessary reprisal of an unhappy , proscribed , interdicted people , as the crime of piracy , would have ap- peared , in any other legislature than ours , a strain of the most insulting and most unnatural cruelty and ...
... consider the necessary reprisal of an unhappy , proscribed , interdicted people , as the crime of piracy , would have ap- peared , in any other legislature than ours , a strain of the most insulting and most unnatural cruelty and ...
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... consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , 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 discussion under a ...
... consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , 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 discussion under a ...
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... 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 in- centives 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 in- centives to ...
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... consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the next place , it would be right to reflect , that the American 16 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS ...
... consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the next place , it would be right to reflect , that the American 16 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS ...
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... consider- able advantages ? Have these successes induced us to alter our mind ; as thinking the season of victory not the time for treating with honour or advantage ? Whatever changes have happened in the national character , it can ...
... consider- able advantages ? Have these successes induced us to alter our mind ; as thinking the season of victory not the time for treating with honour or advantage ? Whatever changes have happened in the national character , it can ...
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