The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Miscellaneous speeches, letters, and fragments. Abridgment of English history, etc. With a general indexG. Bell & sons, 1890 - Political science |
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... body of men - a body which comprehends at least two - thirds of that whole nation ; it amounts to 2,800,000 souls , a number sufficient for the materials constituent of a great people . Now it is well worthy of a serious and dis ...
... body of men - a body which comprehends at least two - thirds of that whole nation ; it amounts to 2,800,000 souls , a number sufficient for the materials constituent of a great people . Now it is well worthy of a serious and dis ...
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... body of men , not from favours , privileges , and trusts , but from the common advantages of society , can ever be a thing intended for their good , or can ever be ratified by any implied consent of theirs . If , therefore , at least an ...
... body of men , not from favours , privileges , and trusts , but from the common advantages of society , can ever be a thing intended for their good , or can ever be ratified by any implied consent of theirs . If , therefore , at least an ...
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... body of the people are excluded from all valuable property ; where the greatest and most ordinary benefits of society are conferred as privileges , and not enjoyed on the footing of common rights . The clandestine manner in which those ...
... body of the people are excluded from all valuable property ; where the greatest and most ordinary benefits of society are conferred as privileges , and not enjoyed on the footing of common rights . The clandestine manner in which those ...
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... body of the Roman Catholics in that kingdom , and some with regard to the security of the greater part of the inhabitants of five counties . What the latter were , or in what manner they were observed , is at this day of much less ...
... body of the Roman Catholics in that kingdom , and some with regard to the security of the greater part of the inhabitants of five counties . What the latter were , or in what manner they were observed , is at this day of much less ...
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... body of the nation as if it had twenty times received the sanction of parliament ; because the very same constitution which has given to the Houses of parliament their definite au- thority , has also left in the Crown the trust of ...
... body of the nation as if it had twenty times received the sanction of parliament ; because the very same constitution which has given to the Houses of parliament their definite au- thority , has also left in the Crown the trust of ...
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Page 107 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.