The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... justice . If we had adverted to this , we never could consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a ...
... justice . If we had adverted to this , we never could consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a ...
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... justice , the whole people should be universally sub- jected to the same suspension of their franchises . " alarm of such a proceeding would then be universal . would operate as a sort of Call of the nation . It would be- come every ...
... justice , the whole people should be universally sub- jected to the same suspension of their franchises . " alarm of such a proceeding would then be universal . would operate as a sort of Call of the nation . It would be- come every ...
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... justice . I have not debated against this bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have been vain to oppose , and impossible to correct it . It is some time since I have been clearly convinced , that in the present ...
... justice . I have not debated against this bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have been vain to oppose , and impossible to correct it . It is some time since I have been clearly convinced , that in the present ...
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... justice , or some capital principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege , but of general justice , ) in the Boston Port , the Massachusetts ...
... justice , or some capital principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege , but of general justice , ) in the Boston Port , the Massachusetts ...
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... justice . But the madness would be as un- questionable , as the competence of that parliament which . should attempt such things . If anything can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion : I ad- mit , however ...
... justice . But the madness would be as un- questionable , as the competence of that parliament which . should attempt such things . If anything can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion : I ad- mit , however ...
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