The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 15
... appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from America , the delusion of the partisans of military government might still continue . They might still feed their imaginations with the possible good consequences which might have ...
... appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from America , the delusion of the partisans of military government might still continue . They might still feed their imaginations with the possible good consequences which might have ...
Page 21
... appear to some , when it is once broken , a strong tie is dissolved . Other sort of connexions will be sought . For , there are very few in the world , who will not prefer a useful ally to an insolent master . Such discord has been the ...
... appear to some , when it is once broken , a strong tie is dissolved . Other sort of connexions will be sought . For , there are very few in the world , who will not prefer a useful ally to an insolent master . Such discord has been the ...
Page 34
... appears to me truly significant . After the repeal of the stamp act , " the colonies fell , " says this as- sembly , " into their ancient state of unsuspecting confidence in the mother country . " This unsuspecting confidence is the ...
... appears to me truly significant . After the repeal of the stamp act , " the colonies fell , " says this as- sembly , " into their ancient state of unsuspecting confidence in the mother country . " This unsuspecting confidence is the ...
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... appear much more shocking to us than the base vices which are generated from the rankness of ser- vitude . Accordingly the least resistance to power appears more inexcusable in our eyes than the greatest abuses of au- thority . All ...
... appear much more shocking to us than the base vices which are generated from the rankness of ser- vitude . Accordingly the least resistance to power appears more inexcusable in our eyes than the greatest abuses of au- thority . All ...
Page 50
... appear to you , that the propositions to which you refer , are , on the face of them , so manifestly wrong , and so certainly injurious to the trade and manufactures of Great Britain , and particularly to yours , that no man could think ...
... appear to you , that the propositions to which you refer , are , on the face of them , so manifestly wrong , and so certainly injurious to the trade and manufactures of Great Britain , and particularly to yours , that no man could think ...
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