The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 26
... produce to me any record of such dis- tinctions , by compact or otherwise , either at the successive formation of the several colonies , or during the existence of any of them . If any gentlemen were able to see how one power could be ...
... produce to me any record of such dis- tinctions , by compact or otherwise , either at the successive formation of the several colonies , or during the existence of any of them . If any gentlemen were able to see how one power could be ...
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... produced not a single murmur . If this undefined power has become odious since that time , and full of horror to the colonies , it is because the unsuspicious con- fidence is lost , and the parental affection , in the bosom of whose ...
... produced not a single murmur . If this undefined power has become odious since that time , and full of horror to the colonies , it is because the unsuspicious con- fidence is lost , and the parental affection , in the bosom of whose ...
Page 38
... produces ( whether in a greater or less number than former times , I know not ) daring profli- gates , and insidious hypocrites . What then ? Am I not to avail myself of whatever good is to be found in the world , be- cause of the ...
... produces ( whether in a greater or less number than former times , I know not ) daring profli- gates , and insidious hypocrites . What then ? Am I not to avail myself of whatever good is to be found in the world , be- cause of the ...
Page 39
... produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition . It disposes men to an abject submission , not by opinion , which may be shaken by argument or altered by passion , but by the ...
... produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition . It disposes men to an abject submission , not by opinion , which may be shaken by argument or altered by passion , but by the ...
Page 57
... produce all the effects of corruption . This , Sir , is almost always the case , where the plan has complete success . But how stands the matter in the mere attempt ? Nothing , you know , is more common than for men to wish , and call ...
... produce all the effects of corruption . This , Sir , is almost always the case , where the plan has complete success . But how stands the matter in the mere attempt ? Nothing , you know , is more common than for men to wish , and call ...
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