The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 10
... hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with ...
... hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with ...
Page 16
... hope must be laid aside . But there is a difference between bad and the worst of all . Terms relative to the cause of the war ought to be offered by the authority of parliament . An arrangement at home promising some security for them ...
... hope must be laid aside . But there is a difference between bad and the worst of all . Terms relative to the cause of the war ought to be offered by the authority of parliament . An arrangement at home promising some security for them ...
Page 26
... hope that their practice has been corre- spondent to their theory . I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect and entire as I found it and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but ...
... hope that their practice has been corre- spondent to their theory . I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect and entire as I found it and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but ...
Page 27
... hope ) they were thoroughly aware of , when they un- dertook the present business . I must beg leave to observe , that it is not only the invidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative ...
... hope ) they were thoroughly aware of , when they un- dertook the present business . I must beg leave to observe , that it is not only the invidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative ...
Page 28
... hope I shall be excused in mentioning another instance , that is material . We know , that the convocation of the clergy had formerly been called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now ...
... hope I shall be excused in mentioning another instance , that is material . We know , that the convocation of the clergy had formerly been called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now ...
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