The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ; if their quiet be nothing but the meditation of revenge , where smitten pride smarting from its wounds ...
... continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ; if their quiet be nothing but the meditation of revenge , where smitten pride smarting from its wounds ...
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... continue as they stood before . I confess , gentlemen , that this appears to me as bad in the principle , and far worse in its consequence , than an universal suspension of the Habeas Corpus act ; and the limiting quali- fication ...
... continue as they stood before . I confess , gentlemen , that this appears to me as bad in the principle , and far worse in its consequence , than an universal suspension of the Habeas Corpus act ; and the limiting quali- fication ...
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... continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If ...
... continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If ...
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... continuing a war to enforce such a sur- render be responsible ( after all that has passed ) for such a future use of a power , that is bound by no compacts , and re- strained by no terror ? Will they tell us what they call in- dulgences ...
... continuing a war to enforce such a sur- render be responsible ( after all that has passed ) for such a future use of a power , that is bound by no compacts , and re- strained by no terror ? Will they tell us what they call in- dulgences ...
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... continue it , as long as such a body as I have described can by any possibility be kept to- gether ; for I should think it the most dreadful of all of- fences , not only towards the present generation , but to all the future , if I were ...
... continue it , as long as such a body as I have described can by any possibility be kept to- gether ; for I should think it the most dreadful of all of- fences , not only towards the present generation , but to all the future , if I were ...
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