The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... original plan . We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant . Therefore as the colonies prospered and increased to a numerous and mighty people , spreading over a very great tract of the globe ; it was natural ...
... original plan . We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant . Therefore as the colonies prospered and increased to a numerous and mighty people , spreading over a very great tract of the globe ; it was natural ...
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Edmund Burke. of their members had departed from its original principles ; and would discover contradictions in each legislature , as well to its own first principles as to its relation to the other , very difficult , if not absolutely ...
Edmund Burke. of their members had departed from its original principles ; and would discover contradictions in each legislature , as well to its own first principles as to its relation to the other , very difficult , if not absolutely ...
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... original English simplicity , and purity of manners , than perhaps any other . You possess among you several men and magistrates of large and cultivated understandings ; fit for any employment in any sphere . I do , to the best of my ...
... original English simplicity , and purity of manners , than perhaps any other . You possess among you several men and magistrates of large and cultivated understandings ; fit for any employment in any sphere . I do , to the best of my ...
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... original war , which has brought other wars and other enemies on Ireland , was not very flattering to her dignity , her interest , or to the very principle of her liberty . Yet she submitted patiently to the evils she suffered from an ...
... original war , which has brought other wars and other enemies on Ireland , was not very flattering to her dignity , her interest , or to the very principle of her liberty . Yet she submitted patiently to the evils she suffered from an ...
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... original scheme remains ! Thus , between the resistance of power , and the unsystematical process of popu larity , the undertaker and the undertaking are both exposed , and the poor reformer is hissed off the stage both by friends and ...
... original scheme remains ! Thus , between the resistance of power , and the unsystematical process of popu larity , the undertaker and the undertaking are both exposed , and the poor reformer is hissed off the stage both by friends and ...
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