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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... spirit of the common law is changed ; very severe penalties are enjoined ; the larg- est powers are vested in the lowest magistrates . Any two justices of peace , or magistrates of a town , with or without information , at their ...
... spirit of the common law is changed ; very severe penalties are enjoined ; the larg- est powers are vested in the lowest magistrates . Any two justices of peace , or magistrates of a town , with or without information , at their ...
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... spirit of the whole system , and of the sub- sequent reflections that are to be made upon it . CHAPTER III . PART I. THE system which we have just reviewed , and the manner in which religious influence on the public is made to operate ...
... spirit of the whole system , and of the sub- sequent reflections that are to be made upon it . CHAPTER III . PART I. THE system which we have just reviewed , and the manner in which religious influence on the public is made to operate ...
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... spirit , to argue , that we ought to retaliate on them by destroying our own . Such are the effects , and such I fear has been the intention , of those numberless books which are daily printed and industriously spread , of the ...
... spirit , to argue , that we ought to retaliate on them by destroying our own . Such are the effects , and such I fear has been the intention , of those numberless books which are daily printed and industriously spread , of the ...
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... spirit of improvement , which persons bred to trade have often exerted on their land- purchases ; that they usually come to them with_a_more abundant command of ready money than most landed men possess ; and that they have in general a ...
... spirit of improvement , which persons bred to trade have often exerted on their land- purchases ; that they usually come to them with_a_more abundant command of ready money than most landed men possess ; and that they have in general a ...
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... spirit has been at any time roused in a society , after it has had its paroxysm it commonly subsides and is quiet , and is even the weaker for the violence of its first exertion ; security and ease are its mortal enemies . But ...
... spirit has been at any time roused in a society , after it has had its paroxysm it commonly subsides and is quiet , and is even the weaker for the violence of its first exertion ; security and ease are its mortal enemies . But ...
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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.