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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... lived . The legislature knew the natural impatience of expectants , and upon this principle they gave encouragement to children to anticipate the inheritance . For it is provided , that the eldest son of any Papist shall , immediately ...
... lived . The legislature knew the natural impatience of expectants , and upon this principle they gave encouragement to children to anticipate the inheritance . For it is provided , that the eldest son of any Papist shall , immediately ...
Page 51
... lived a hundred and fifty years ago , I should have been as earnest and anxious as anybody for this sort of abjuration : but , living at the time in which I live , and obliged to speculate forward instead of backward , I must fairly say ...
... lived a hundred and fifty years ago , I should have been as earnest and anxious as anybody for this sort of abjuration : but , living at the time in which I live , and obliged to speculate forward instead of backward , I must fairly say ...
Page 153
... lived , for it they were ready to die . Its defects , if it had any , were partly covered by partiality , and partly borne by prudence . Now all its excellencies are forgot , its faults are now forcibly dragged into day , exag- gerated ...
... lived , for it they were ready to die . Its defects , if it had any , were partly covered by partiality , and partly borne by prudence . Now all its excellencies are forgot , its faults are now forcibly dragged into day , exag- gerated ...
Page 157
... lived again ; and Westminster Hall was obliged to borrow from the Star Cham- ber , for the same reasons as the Star Chamber had borrowed from the Roman forum , because they had no law , statute , or tradition of their own . Thus the ...
... lived again ; and Westminster Hall was obliged to borrow from the Star Cham- ber , for the same reasons as the Star Chamber had borrowed from the Roman forum , because they had no law , statute , or tradition of their own . Thus the ...
Page 204
... lived mostly in the open air must have been well skilled in these observations . And as changes in the weather influenced much the fortune of their huntings or their harvests , which were all their fortunes , it was easy to apply the ...
... lived mostly in the open air must have been well skilled in these observations . And as changes in the weather influenced much the fortune of their huntings or their harvests , which were all their fortunes , it was easy to apply the ...
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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.