The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... effect on our dependencies . Our unlimited declaration of legislative authority produced not a single murmur . If ... effect . But if it every had this effect , I confess that I should prefer D 2 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 35.
... effect on our dependencies . Our unlimited declaration of legislative authority produced not a single murmur . If ... effect . But if it every had this effect , I confess that I should prefer D 2 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 35.
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Edmund Burke. had this effect , I confess that I should prefer independency without war , to independency with it ; and I have so much trust in the inclinations and prejudices of mankind , and so little in anything else , that I should ...
Edmund Burke. had this effect , I confess that I should prefer independency without war , to independency with it ; and I have so much trust in the inclinations and prejudices of mankind , and so little in anything else , that I should ...
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... effect , the cause you wished me to undertake . I should have lost the only thing which can make such abilities as mine of any use to the world now or hereafter ; I mean that authority which is derived from an opinion , that a member ...
... effect , the cause you wished me to undertake . I should have lost the only thing which can make such abilities as mine of any use to the world now or hereafter ; I mean that authority which is derived from an opinion , that a member ...
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... effect a conversion of unprofitable titles into a productive estate ; that it should lead to , and indeed almost compel , a provident administration of such sums of public money as must remain under discretionary trusts ; that it should ...
... effect a conversion of unprofitable titles into a productive estate ; that it should lead to , and indeed almost compel , a provident administration of such sums of public money as must remain under discretionary trusts ; that it should ...
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... effects , by the worst of vices . Malignity and envy will carve much more deeply , and finish much more sharply , in the work of retrenchment , than frugality and providence . I do not , therefore , wonder , that gentlemen have kept ...
... effects , by the worst of vices . Malignity and envy will carve much more deeply , and finish much more sharply , in the work of retrenchment , than frugality and providence . I do not , therefore , wonder , that gentlemen have kept ...
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