The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... reason what- ever be given , why one people should voluntarily yield any degree of pre - eminence to another , but on a supposition of great affection and benevolence towards them . Unfortun- ately your rulers , trusting to other things ...
... reason what- ever be given , why one people should voluntarily yield any degree of pre - eminence to another , but on a supposition of great affection and benevolence towards them . Unfortun- ately your rulers , trusting to other things ...
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... reason is stifled ; and all the misconduct , all the ca- lamities of the war are covered and continued . If I had not lived long enough to be little surprised at anything , I should have been in some degree astonished at the continued ...
... reason is stifled ; and all the misconduct , all the ca- lamities of the war are covered and continued . If I had not lived long enough to be little surprised at anything , I should have been in some degree astonished at the continued ...
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... reasons against them . Shall that reason not be given ? Is it then a rule , that no man in this nation shall open his mouth in favour of the colonies , shall defend their rights , or complain of their sufferings ? Or when war finally ...
... reasons against them . Shall that reason not be given ? Is it then a rule , that no man in this nation shall open his mouth in favour of the colonies , shall defend their rights , or complain of their sufferings ? Or when war finally ...
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... reason to have any scope until it can be no longer of service . I have always wished , that as the dispute had its apparent origin from things done in parliament , and as the acts passed there had provoked the war , that the foundations ...
... reason to have any scope until it can be no longer of service . I have always wished , that as the dispute had its apparent origin from things done in parliament , and as the acts passed there had provoked the war , that the foundations ...
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... reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by their former fate , might possibly exercise their ...
... reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by their former fate , might possibly exercise their ...
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