The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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... Army Estimates , 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France , and on the Proceedings of certain Societies in London relative to that Event Letter to a Member of the National Assembly Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs PAGE 1 73 135 ...
... Army Estimates , 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France , and on the Proceedings of certain Societies in London relative to that Event Letter to a Member of the National Assembly Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs PAGE 1 73 135 ...
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... army which he never paid . Of course , his soldiers were generally in a state of mutiny ' . The usurping council say that they laboured hard with their master the nabob , to persuade him to reduce these mutinous and useless troops . He ...
... army which he never paid . Of course , his soldiers were generally in a state of mutiny ' . The usurping council say that they laboured hard with their master the nabob , to persuade him to reduce these mutinous and useless troops . He ...
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... army , though it is beyond a doubt , that money to a large amount is now hoarded up in his coffers at Chepauk ; and tunkaws are granted to individuals , upon some of his most valuable countries , for payment of part of those debts which ...
... army , though it is beyond a doubt , that money to a large amount is now hoarded up in his coffers at Chepauk ; and tunkaws are granted to individuals , upon some of his most valuable countries , for payment of part of those debts which ...
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... army and a civil establishment , would have been impossible ; therefore the ministers are silent on that head , and rest themselves on the authority of Lord Macartney , who , in a letter to the court of directors , written in the year ...
... army and a civil establishment , would have been impossible ; therefore the ministers are silent on that head , and rest themselves on the authority of Lord Macartney , who , in a letter to the court of directors , written in the year ...
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... army ; it is robbed in its civil administration ; it is robbed in its credit ; it is robbed in its investment which forms the commercial connexion between that country and Europe . There is the robbery . But my principal objection lies ...
... army ; it is robbed in its civil administration ; it is robbed in its credit ; it is robbed in its investment which forms the commercial connexion between that country and Europe . There is the robbery . But my principal objection lies ...
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Side 172 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Side 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Side 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Side 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Side 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Side 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Side 230 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Side 198 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.