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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... less do I condemn the gentlemen who , with equal good intentions , with much better abilities , and with infinitely greater personal weight and consideration than mine , are of opinion , that this matter ought to be decided upon ...
... less do I condemn the gentlemen who , with equal good intentions , with much better abilities , and with infinitely greater personal weight and consideration than mine , are of opinion , that this matter ought to be decided upon ...
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... less than two - thirds of the full improved yearly value , at the time of the making it , shall be reserved during the whole continuance of the term ; and 2ndly , it does not extend to the whole kingdom . This lease must also be in ...
... less than two - thirds of the full improved yearly value , at the time of the making it , shall be reserved during the whole continuance of the term ; and 2ndly , it does not extend to the whole kingdom . This lease must also be in ...
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... less than £ 200 , to appear and take their trial at the next quarter sessions . Here the justices are to re - examine evidence , until they arrive , as before , to what shall appear to them a probability . For the rest , they resort to ...
... less than £ 200 , to appear and take their trial at the next quarter sessions . Here the justices are to re - examine evidence , until they arrive , as before , to what shall appear to them a probability . For the rest , they resort to ...
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... For if we can once prevail upon ourselves to depart from the strictness and integrity of this principle in favour even of a considerable party , the argument will hold for one that is less so ; TRACTS ON THE POPERY LAWS . 23.
... For if we can once prevail upon ourselves to depart from the strictness and integrity of this principle in favour even of a considerable party , the argument will hold for one that is less so ; TRACTS ON THE POPERY LAWS . 23.
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Edmund Burke. argument will hold for one that is less so ; and thus we shall go on , narrowing the bottom of public right , until step by step we arrive , though after no very long or very forced de- duction , at what one of our poets ...
Edmund Burke. argument will hold for one that is less so ; and thus we shall go on , narrowing the bottom of public right , until step by step we arrive , though after no very long or very forced de- duction , at what one of our poets ...
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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.