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Exceptionable as it may be , and as I think it is in some particulars , it seems the
natural , perhaps necessary , result of the measures we have taken , and the
situation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) ...
Exceptionable as it may be , and as I think it is in some particulars , it seems the
natural , perhaps necessary , result of the measures we have taken , and the
situation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) ...
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The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of
the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If
Lord Balmerino , in the last rebellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I ...
The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of
the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If
Lord Balmerino , in the last rebellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I ...
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If measures of peace are necessary , they must begin somewhere ; 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 ...
If measures of peace are necessary , they must begin somewhere ; 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 ...
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I have heard it a hundred times very gravely alleged , that in order to keep power
in wind , it was 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 productive of any ...
I have heard it a hundred times very gravely alleged , that in order to keep power
in wind , it was 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 productive of any ...
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Such was our situation ; and such a satisfaction was 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 ...
Such was our situation ; and such a satisfaction was 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 ...
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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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