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Page 7
... troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of
another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth
according to a new and unconstitutional interpretation , I have thought evil and
dangerous ...
... troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of
another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth
according to a new and unconstitutional interpretation , I have thought evil and
dangerous ...
Page 8
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 ...
Page 10
They thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen
the malignity of an evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my
opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I
am ...
They thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen
the malignity of an evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my
opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I
am ...
Page 21
... ( call them good or evil , ) troublesome discussions are brought to some sort of
adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to
bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass
of ...
... ( call them good or evil , ) troublesome discussions are brought to some sort of
adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to
bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass
of ...
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For liberty is a good to be improved , and not an evil to be lessened . It is not only
a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state
itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether ...
For liberty is a good to be improved , and not an evil to be lessened . It is not only
a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state
itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether ...
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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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