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Page 5
For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the
reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is
not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their ...
For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the
reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is
not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their ...
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But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to
bind them , but the great principles of reason and equity , and the general sense
of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and
...
But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to
bind them , but the great principles of reason and equity , and the general sense
of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and
...
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No plea , nor pretence , of inconvenience or evil example ( which must in their
nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad . mitted as a reason for such
mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for ...
No plea , nor pretence , of inconvenience or evil example ( which must in their
nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad . mitted as a reason for such
mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for ...
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For many reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the particulars of
the state in which you stood with regard ... We may trust them as amply as we
think proper ; but as they have most certainly a call for all the reason which their
stock ...
For many reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the particulars of
the state in which you stood with regard ... We may trust them as amply as we
think proper ; but as they have most certainly a call for all the reason which their
stock ...
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... merchants are to be rewarded for the pretended zeal , of which another set are
the dupes ; and thus , between craft and credulity , the voice of reason is stifled ;
and all the misconduct , all the calamities of the war are covered and continued .
... merchants are to be rewarded for the pretended zeal , of which another set are
the dupes ; and thus , between craft and credulity , the voice of reason is stifled ;
and all the misconduct , all the calamities of the war are covered and continued .
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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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