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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... Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals , in relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings , Esquire ✓Get • General In lex to the Six Volumes • 423 529 A LETTER ON THE DURATION OF ...
... Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals , in relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings , Esquire ✓Get • General In lex to the Six Volumes • 423 529 A LETTER ON THE DURATION OF ...
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... committee in London ; permit me to take this method of submitting to you my reasons for thinking , with our committee , that nothing ought to be hastily deter- mined upon the subject . Our petition arose naturally from distresses which ...
... committee in London ; permit me to take this method of submitting to you my reasons for thinking , with our committee , that nothing ought to be hastily deter- mined upon the subject . Our petition arose naturally from distresses which ...
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... committees , from a choice into which no class or description of men is to be excluded - and the sub- sequent county meetings should be as full , and as well at- tended , as possible . Without these precautions the true sense of the ...
... committees , from a choice into which no class or description of men is to be excluded - and the sub- sequent county meetings should be as full , and as well at- tended , as possible . Without these precautions the true sense of the ...
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... committee . There were in it a majority , to my knowledge , of very sober , well - intentioned men ; and there were none in it but such who , if not continually goaded and irritated , might be made useful to the tranquillity of the ...
... committee . There were in it a majority , to my knowledge , of very sober , well - intentioned men ; and there were none in it but such who , if not continually goaded and irritated , might be made useful to the tranquillity of the ...
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... committee upon it . Formerly , when the superiority of two parties contending for dogmas and an establishment was the question , we knew in such a contest the whole of the evil . We knew , for in- stance , that Calvinism would prevail ...
... committee upon it . Formerly , when the superiority of two parties contending for dogmas and an establishment was the question , we knew in such a contest the whole of the evil . We knew , for in- stance , that Calvinism would prevail ...
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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.