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Page 12
I scarcely know how to adapt my mind to the feelings with which the court
gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be brought to
rejoice , when I hear of the slaughter and cap . tivity of long lists of those names
which ...
I scarcely know how to adapt my mind to the feelings with which the court
gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be brought to
rejoice , when I hear of the slaughter and cap . tivity of long lists of those names
which ...
Page 15
As to the difficulties of laying once more the foundations of that government ,
which , for the sake of conquering what was our own , has been voluntarily and
wantonly pulled down by a court faction here , I tremble to look at them . Has any
of ...
As to the difficulties of laying once more the foundations of that government ,
which , for the sake of conquering what was our own , has been voluntarily and
wantonly pulled down by a court faction here , I tremble to look at them . Has any
of ...
Page 17
... the desolations of war , and the insults of hostile laws daily accumulated on
one another , the American leaders seem to have had the greatest difficulty in
bringing up their people to a declaration of total independence . But the court
gazette ...
... the desolations of war , and the insults of hostile laws daily accumulated on
one another , the American leaders seem to have had the greatest difficulty in
bringing up their people to a declaration of total independence . But the court
gazette ...
Page 23
We all know that the sense of the nation obliged the court of King Charles the
Second to abandon the Dutch war ; a war next to the present the most impolitic
which weever carried on . The good people of England considered Holland as a
sort ...
We all know that the sense of the nation obliged the court of King Charles the
Second to abandon the Dutch war ; a war next to the present the most impolitic
which weever carried on . The good people of England considered Holland as a
sort ...
Page 24
And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a
zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the
extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I told them that Lord ...
And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a
zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the
extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I told them that Lord ...
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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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