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Page 8
Indeed ! nothing is security to any individual but the common interest of all . This
act , therefore , has this distinguished evil in it , that it is the first partial suspension
of the Habeas Corpus that has been made . The precedent , which is always of ...
Indeed ! nothing is security to any individual but the common interest of all . This
act , therefore , has this distinguished evil in it , that it is the first partial suspension
of the Habeas Corpus that has been made . The precedent , which is always of ...
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I believe there is not a man ( except those who prefer the interest of some paltry
faction to the very being of their country ) who would not wish that the Americans
should from time to time carry many points , and even some of them not quite ...
I believe there is not a man ( except those who prefer the interest of some paltry
faction to the very being of their country ) who would not wish that the Americans
should from time to time carry many points , and even some of them not quite ...
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But the wisdom of the nation has been far more clear , when those ministers have
been compelled to consult its interests by treaty . We all know that the sense of
the nation obliged the court of King Charles the Second to abandon the Dutch ...
But the wisdom of the nation has been far more clear , when those ministers have
been compelled to consult its interests by treaty . We all know that the sense of
the nation obliged the court of King Charles the Second to abandon the Dutch ...
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I never ventured to put your solid interests upon speculative grounds . My having
constantly declined to do so has been attributed to my incapacity for such
disquisitions ; and I am inclined to believe it is partly the cause . I never shall be ...
I never ventured to put your solid interests upon speculative grounds . My having
constantly declined to do so has been attributed to my incapacity for such
disquisitions ; and I am inclined to believe it is partly the cause . I never shall be ...
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If I were ready , on any call of my own vanity or interest , or to answer any election
purpose , to forsake principles , ( whatever they are , ) which I had formed at a
mature age , on full reflection , and which had been confirmed by long
experience ...
If I were ready , on any call of my own vanity or interest , or to answer any election
purpose , to forsake principles , ( whatever they are , ) which I had formed at a
mature age , on full reflection , and which had been confirmed by long
experience ...
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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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