The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 38
... kind of society to be taken up as the best method of gratifying low , personal pride , or ambitious interest , he is mistaken ; and he knows nothing of the world . Preferring this connexion , I do not mean to detract in the slightest ...
... kind of society to be taken up as the best method of gratifying low , personal pride , or ambitious interest , he is mistaken ; and he knows nothing of the world . Preferring this connexion , I do not mean to detract in the slightest ...
Page 45
... kind are opened ; and communities must be held together by an evident and solid interest . God forbid , that our conduct should demonstrate to the world , that Great Britain can , in no instance whatsoever , be brought to a sense of ...
... kind are opened ; and communities must be held together by an evident and solid interest . God forbid , that our conduct should demonstrate to the world , that Great Britain can , in no instance whatsoever , be brought to a sense of ...
Page 48
... kind are not charged at all . If it were otherwise , you could trade very little . You know , that the price of all sorts of manufacture is not a great deal enhanced ( except to the domestic consumer ) by any taxes paid in this country ...
... kind are not charged at all . If it were otherwise , you could trade very little . You know , that the price of all sorts of manufacture is not a great deal enhanced ( except to the domestic consumer ) by any taxes paid in this country ...
Page 57
... kind are innumerable ; and their enmity will be the more bitter , and the more dangerous too , because a sense of dignity will oblige them to conceal the cause of their resentment . Very few men of great families and ex- tensive ...
... kind are innumerable ; and their enmity will be the more bitter , and the more dangerous too , because a sense of dignity will oblige them to conceal the cause of their resentment . Very few men of great families and ex- tensive ...
Page 58
... kind should be done . If there is any sacrifice to be made , either of estimation or of fortune , the smallest is the best . Commanders - in - chief are not to be put upon the forlorn hope . But , indeed , it is necessary that the ...
... kind should be done . If there is any sacrifice to be made , either of estimation or of fortune , the smallest is the best . Commanders - in - chief are not to be put upon the forlorn hope . But , indeed , it is necessary that the ...
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