The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. long course of prosperity and victory , to the high spirit of free dependencies , animated with the first glow and activity of juvenile heat , and assuming to themselves , as their birth- right , some part of that very ...
Edmund Burke. long course of prosperity and victory , to the high spirit of free dependencies , animated with the first glow and activity of juvenile heat , and assuming to themselves , as their birth- right , some part of that very ...
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... spirit of all generous and noble institutions . I am aware that the age is not what we all wish . But I am sure , that the only means of checking its precipitate de- generacy , is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time ...
... spirit of all generous and noble institutions . I am aware that the age is not what we all wish . But I am sure , that the only means of checking its precipitate de- generacy , is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time ...
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... spirit of domination , and to lose the relish of honest equality . The principles of our forefathers become suspected to us , because we see them animating the present opposition of our children . The faults which grow out of the ...
... spirit of domination , and to lose the relish of honest equality . The principles of our forefathers become suspected to us , because we see them animating the present opposition of our children . The faults which grow out of the ...
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... spirit have made a beneficent and an honest spoil ; they have plundered from extravagance and luxury , for the use of substantial service , a revenue of near four hundred thousand pounds . The reform of the finances , joined to this ...
... spirit have made a beneficent and an honest spoil ; they have plundered from extravagance and luxury , for the use of substantial service , a revenue of near four hundred thousand pounds . The reform of the finances , joined to this ...
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... spirit . Since the invasion of King Edward , and the massacre of the bards , there never was such a tumult , and alarm , and uproar , through the region of Prestatyn . Snowden shook to its base ; Cader Idris was loosened from its ...
... spirit . Since the invasion of King Edward , and the massacre of the bards , there never was such a tumult , and alarm , and uproar , through the region of Prestatyn . Snowden shook to its base ; Cader Idris was loosened from its ...
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