The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 36Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1799 |
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... parliament . To have given an account fufficiently copious of thefe affairs , interesting and inftructive , even beyond the ufual tenor of the prefent times , fo fruitful in novelty , would have rendered the prefent greatly ...
... parliament . To have given an account fufficiently copious of thefe affairs , interesting and inftructive , even beyond the ufual tenor of the prefent times , fo fruitful in novelty , would have rendered the prefent greatly ...
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... parliaments in oppofing and refufing to register the royal edicts was well remem- bered ; and recalled to the attention of the public , in a ftyle no ways fa- vourable to the Convention . The inconfiderable numbers to which this body ...
... parliaments in oppofing and refufing to register the royal edicts was well remem- bered ; and recalled to the attention of the public , in a ftyle no ways fa- vourable to the Convention . The inconfiderable numbers to which this body ...
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... Parliament , January 1794 Speech from the Throne . Debates thereon in both Houses of Parliament . publican notions to the favour of thofe individuals in whom. ftore union between the parties that ftill continued to divide the nation . In ...
... Parliament , January 1794 Speech from the Throne . Debates thereon in both Houses of Parliament . publican notions to the favour of thofe individuals in whom. ftore union between the parties that ftill continued to divide the nation . In ...
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... parliament , and the manner of reprefentation . But , the prefent queftion embraced objects of much greater importance . It was not a part , but the whole of the British conftitution , a reform of which was required . This was well ...
... parliament , and the manner of reprefentation . But , the prefent queftion embraced objects of much greater importance . It was not a part , but the whole of the British conftitution , a reform of which was required . This was well ...
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... parliament to occupy itfelf folely with the concerns of its conftitu- ents . Whatever was irrelevant to thote objects wherein they were interested , did not belong to par liamentary difcuffioris . The real queftion before them was ...
... parliament to occupy itfelf folely with the concerns of its conftitu- ents . Whatever was irrelevant to thote objects wherein they were interested , did not belong to par liamentary difcuffioris . The real queftion before them was ...
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