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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... land ; loaded with irons , unfurnished with money , unsupported by friends , three thousand miles from all means of calling upon or confronting evidence , where no one local circumstance that tends to detect perjury , can possibly be ...
... land ; loaded with irons , unfurnished with money , unsupported by friends , three thousand miles from all means of calling upon or confronting evidence , where no one local circumstance that tends to detect perjury , can possibly be ...
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... lands on the quay , does not rest on as firm legal ground as the merchant who sits in his counting - house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one ...
... lands on the quay , does not rest on as firm legal ground as the merchant who sits in his counting - house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one ...
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... land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours , reduced to a servile de- pendence on their mercy ; acquiescing in assurances of friend- ship which she does not trust ; complaining of hostilities which she dares not ...
... land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours , reduced to a servile de- pendence on their mercy ; acquiescing in assurances of friend- ship which she does not trust ; complaining of hostilities which she dares not ...
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... land united to the crown of Great Britain for no other pur- pose , than that we should counteract the bounty of Pro- vidence in her favour ? And in propcrtion as that bounty has been liberal , that we are to regard it TWO LETTERS TO ...
... land united to the crown of Great Britain for no other pur- pose , than that we should counteract the bounty of Pro- vidence in her favour ? And in propcrtion as that bounty has been liberal , that we are to regard it TWO LETTERS TO ...
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... land interferes with us , and therefore must be checked , is , in my opinion , a very mistaken and a very dangerous principle . I must beg leave to repeat , what I took the liberty of sug- gesting to you in my last letter , that Ireland ...
... land interferes with us , and therefore must be checked , is , in my opinion , a very mistaken and a very dangerous principle . I must beg leave to repeat , what I took the liberty of sug- gesting to you in my last letter , that Ireland ...
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