The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellanies. Reflections on the revolution in France. Letter to a member of the National assemblyG. Bell & sons, 1892 - Political science |
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... kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle ...
... kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle ...
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... lamentable to those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people , amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 11.
... lamentable to those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people , amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 11.
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... kingdom they call for ? They have it already ; and if they choose to fight their battles in their own person , nobody pre- vents their setting sail to America in the next transports . Do they think , that the service is stinted for want ...
... kingdom they call for ? They have it already ; and if they choose to fight their battles in their own person , nobody pre- vents their setting sail to America in the next transports . Do they think , that the service is stinted for want ...
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... kingdom . Humble as this relation may appear to some , when it is once broken , a strong tie is dissolved . Other sort of connexions ! will be sought . For , there are very few in the world , who will not prefer a useful ally to an ...
... kingdom . Humble as this relation may appear to some , when it is once broken , a strong tie is dissolved . Other sort of connexions ! will be sought . For , there are very few in the world , who will not prefer a useful ally to an ...
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... kingdom ; they dreaded to drive it to the protection , or subject it to the power of France , by their own inconsiderate hostility . They paid but little respect to the court jargon of that day ; nor were they inflamed by the pretended ...
... kingdom ; they dreaded to drive it to the protection , or subject it to the power of France , by their own inconsiderate hostility . They paid but little respect to the court jargon of that day ; nor were they inflamed by the pretended ...
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