The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the ...
... necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the ...
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... necessary , they must begin some- where ; and a conciliatory temper must precede and prepare every plan of reconciliation . Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We are not disarmed by being ...
... necessary , they must begin some- where ; and a conciliatory temper must precede and prepare every plan of reconciliation . Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We are not disarmed by being ...
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... necessary , by preference , to exert it in those very points in which it was most likely to be resisted , and the least likely to be pro- ductive of any advantage . These were the considerations , gentlemen , which led me early to think ...
... necessary , by preference , to exert it in those very points in which it was most likely to be resisted , and the least likely to be pro- ductive of any advantage . These were the considerations , gentlemen , which led me early to think ...
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... necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to prevent the taking them up again and again . Of what nature this satisfaction ought to be , I wish it had been the disposition ...
... necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to prevent the taking them up again and again . Of what nature this satisfaction ought to be , I wish it had been the disposition ...
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... necessary . Parliament , from a mere representative of the people , and a guardian of popular privileges for its own immediate constituents , grew into a mighty sovereign . In- stead of being a control on the crown on its own behalf ...
... necessary . Parliament , from a mere representative of the people , and a guardian of popular privileges for its own immediate constituents , grew into a mighty sovereign . In- stead of being a control on the crown on its own behalf ...
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