The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Miscellaneous speeches, letters, and fragments. Abridgement of English history, etc. With a general indexG. Bell & sons, 1890 |
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... Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals , in relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings , Esquire • General In lex to the Six Volumes } 423 529 A LETTER ON THE DURATION OF ...
... Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals , in relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings , Esquire • General In lex to the Six Volumes } 423 529 A LETTER ON THE DURATION OF ...
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... committee in London ; permit me to take this method of submitting to you my reasons for thinking , with our committee , that nothing ought to be hastily deter- mined upon the subject . Our petition arose naturally from distresses which ...
... committee in London ; permit me to take this method of submitting to you my reasons for thinking , with our committee , that nothing ought to be hastily deter- mined upon the subject . Our petition arose naturally from distresses which ...
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... committee . There were in it a majority , to my knowledge , of very sober , well - intentioned men ; and there were none in it but such who , if not continually goaded and irritated , might be made useful to the tranquillity of the ...
... committee . There were in it a majority , to my knowledge , of very sober , well - intentioned men ; and there were none in it but such who , if not continually goaded and irritated , might be made useful to the tranquillity of the ...
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... committee upon it . Formerly , when the superiority of two parties contending for dogmas and an establishment was the question , we knew in such a contest the whole of the evil . We knew , for in- stance , that Calvinism would prevail ...
... committee upon it . Formerly , when the superiority of two parties contending for dogmas and an establishment was the question , we knew in such a contest the whole of the evil . We knew , for in- stance , that Calvinism would prevail ...
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... COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE STATE OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT . MR . SPEAKER , We have now discovered , at the close of the eighteenth century , that the constitution of England , which for a series of ages had ...
... COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE STATE OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT . MR . SPEAKER , We have now discovered , at the close of the eighteenth century , that the constitution of England , which for a series of ages had ...
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