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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... opinion , that the House of Commons is not The meeting of the freeholders of the county of Buckingham , which occasioned the following letter , was called for the purpose of taking into consideration a petition to parliament for ...
... opinion , that the House of Commons is not The meeting of the freeholders of the county of Buckingham , which occasioned the following letter , was called for the purpose of taking into consideration a petition to parliament for ...
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... opinion , that this matter ought to be decided upon instantly . I most heartily wish that the deliberate sense of the king- dom on this great subject should be known . When it is known it must be prevalent . It would be dreadful indeed ...
... opinion , that this matter ought to be decided upon instantly . I most heartily wish that the deliberate sense of the king- dom on this great subject should be known . When it is known it must be prevalent . It would be dreadful indeed ...
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... opinion at all of their own . The first proposer of any measure must be their master . I do not know that an amicable variety of sentiment , conducted with mutual good will , has any sort of resemblance to dis- cord ; or that it can ...
... opinion at all of their own . The first proposer of any measure must be their master . I do not know that an amicable variety of sentiment , conducted with mutual good will , has any sort of resemblance to dis- cord ; or that it can ...
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... opinion was the good or ill behaviour of his wife . any Thus the laws stand with regard to the property already acquired , to its mode of descent , and to family powers . Now as to the new acquisition of real property , and both to the ...
... opinion was the good or ill behaviour of his wife . any Thus the laws stand with regard to the property already acquired , to its mode of descent , and to family powers . Now as to the new acquisition of real property , and both to the ...
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... opinion as any man . In the exercise of the most unresisted author- ity at home , in a career of uninterrupted victory abroad , and in a course of flattery equal to the circumstances of his great- ness in both these particulars , he ...
... opinion as any man . In the exercise of the most unresisted author- ity at home , in a career of uninterrupted victory abroad , and in a course of flattery equal to the circumstances of his great- ness in both these particulars , he ...
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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.