The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... means of saving the constitution itself , on an occasion worthy of bringing it forth . As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of ...
... means of saving the constitution itself , on an occasion worthy of bringing it forth . As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of ...
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... means of checking its precipitate de- generacy , is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time and to ... mean to continue it , as long as such a body as I have described can by any possibility be kept to- gether ; for I ...
... means of checking its precipitate de- generacy , is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time and to ... mean to continue it , as long as such a body as I have described can by any possibility be kept to- gether ; for I ...
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... means of honour , to be grown into disrepute , will retire dis- heartened and disgusted . Those of a more robust make , the bold , able , ambitious men , who pay some of their court to power through the people , and substitute the voice ...
... means of honour , to be grown into disrepute , will retire dis- heartened and disgusted . Those of a more robust make , the bold , able , ambitious men , who pay some of their court to power through the people , and substitute the voice ...
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... means of growing wealthy in herself , or , in other words , of being use- ful to us , but by doing the very same things which we do , for the same purposes . I hope that in Great Britain we shall always pursue , without exception ...
... means of growing wealthy in herself , or , in other words , of being use- ful to us , but by doing the very same things which we do , for the same purposes . I hope that in Great Britain we shall always pursue , without exception ...
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... means of bearing the burthens which she is to incur in defending herself against enemies which we have brought upon her ? I cannot set my face against such arguments . Is it quite fair to suppose , that I have no other motive for ...
... means of bearing the burthens which she is to incur in defending herself against enemies which we have brought upon her ? I cannot set my face against such arguments . Is it quite fair to suppose , that I have no other motive for ...
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