The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... kind had held out with the same fraudulent ends and pre- tences with which they had uniformly conducted every part of their proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example , by an informed and ...
... kind had held out with the same fraudulent ends and pre- tences with which they had uniformly conducted every part of their proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example , by an informed and ...
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... kind of rhetorical flourish in favour of freedom in general is surely a little out of its place . It is virtually a begging of the question . It is a song of triumph before the battle . 66 But Mr. Fox does not make the panegyric of the ...
... kind of rhetorical flourish in favour of freedom in general is surely a little out of its place . It is virtually a begging of the question . It is a song of triumph before the battle . 66 But Mr. Fox does not make the panegyric of the ...
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... kind , and to at least the temporary wretchedness of a whole community , I do not deny to be in some sort natural : because when people see a political object , which they ar- dently desire , but in one point of view , they are apt ex ...
... kind , and to at least the temporary wretchedness of a whole community , I do not deny to be in some sort natural : because when people see a political object , which they ar- dently desire , but in one point of view , they are apt ex ...
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... kind , and in all its parts , it must be supposed to have something excellent in its fundamental principles . It must be shown that it is right , though imperfect ; that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement , but ...
... kind , and in all its parts , it must be supposed to have something excellent in its fundamental principles . It must be shown that it is right , though imperfect ; that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement , but ...
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... kind would rouse him ; that he must think , coming from men of their calibre , they were highly mischievous ; that they gave countenance to bad men , and bad designs ; and , though he was aware that the handling such matters in ...
... kind would rouse him ; that he must think , coming from men of their calibre , they were highly mischievous ; that they gave countenance to bad men , and bad designs ; and , though he was aware that the handling such matters in ...
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