The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 49
... continue in it . It is in a great measure for your sake , that I wish to preserve this character . Without it , I am sure , I should be ill able to discharge , by any service , the smallest part of that debt of gratitude and affection ...
... continue in it . It is in a great measure for your sake , that I wish to preserve this character . Without it , I am sure , I should be ill able to discharge , by any service , the smallest part of that debt of gratitude and affection ...
Page 60
... continue to be sunk as in the time of profound peace . Even payments , which their treasury had been authorized to suspend during the time of war , are not suspended . A general reform , executed through every department of the revenue ...
... continue to be sunk as in the time of profound peace . Even payments , which their treasury had been authorized to suspend during the time of war , are not suspended . A general reform , executed through every department of the revenue ...
Page 74
... continue subject to vexation themselves , than to give up the means and chance of vexing others . It is exceedingly common for men to contract their love to their country into an attachment to its petty subdivisions ; and they sometimes ...
... continue subject to vexation themselves , than to give up the means and chance of vexing others . It is exceedingly common for men to contract their love to their country into an attachment to its petty subdivisions ; and they sometimes ...
Page 103
... continue men in those habitudes of friendship , those political connexions , and those political principles , in which they began life . They are an- tidotes against a corrupt levity , instead of causes of it . What an unseemly ...
... continue men in those habitudes of friendship , those political connexions , and those political principles , in which they began life . They are an- tidotes against a corrupt levity , instead of causes of it . What an unseemly ...
Page 155
... continue any human creatures in such a situation . But honest men will not forget either their merit or their sufferings . There are men ( and many , I trust , there are ) who , out of love to their country and their kind , would ...
... continue any human creatures in such a situation . But honest men will not forget either their merit or their sufferings . There are men ( and many , I trust , there are ) who , out of love to their country and their kind , would ...
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