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Page 12
Some may think them matters of congratulation and complimentary addresses ;
but I trust your candour will be so indulgent to my weakness , as not to have the
worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my rejecting
all ...
Some may think them matters of congratulation and complimentary addresses ;
but I trust your candour will be so indulgent to my weakness , as not to have the
worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my rejecting
all ...
Page 13
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 can furnish , why should we think it
proper to disturb its operation by inflaming their passions ? I may be unable to
lend an ...
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 can furnish , why should we think it
proper to disturb its operation by inflaming their passions ? I may be unable to
lend an ...
Page 18
No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and
insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely
dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ambition . But it will appear
...
No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and
insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely
dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ambition . But it will appear
...
Page 23
On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any
administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get
us into a war , and then their power is safe , and an act of oblivion passed for all
their ...
On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any
administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get
us into a war , and then their power is safe , and an act of oblivion passed for all
their ...
Page 26
When I first came into a public trust , I found your parliament in possession of an
unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book
without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever .
When I first came into a public trust , I found your parliament in possession of an
unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book
without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever .
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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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