Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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... honour , as a betrayer of the dignity of his country . Most men , especially great men , do not always know their well - wishers . I come to rescue that noble lord out of the hands of those he calls his friends , and even out of his own ...
... honour , as a betrayer of the dignity of his country . Most men , especially great men , do not always know their well - wishers . I come to rescue that noble lord out of the hands of those he calls his friends , and even out of his own ...
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... honour so high that he would rather part with his crown than preserve it by deceit . A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxa- tion ) we ought to make it our ...
... honour so high that he would rather part with his crown than preserve it by deceit . A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxa- tion ) we ought to make it our ...
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... honour of a seat in this House . At that period the necessity was established of keeping up no less than twenty new regi- ments , with twenty colonels capable of seats in this House . This scheme was adopted with very general applause ...
... honour of a seat in this House . At that period the necessity was established of keeping up no less than twenty new regi- ments , with twenty colonels capable of seats in this House . This scheme was adopted with very general applause ...
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... honour of a seat in this House , it was my fortune , unknowing and unknown to the then Ministry , by the intervention of a common friend , to become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treasury department . It ...
... honour of a seat in this House , it was my fortune , unknowing and unknown to the then Ministry , by the intervention of a common friend , to become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treasury department . It ...
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... honour- able gentleman who led us in this House . Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him , he acted his part with alacrity and resolution . We all felt inspired by the example he gave us , down even to myself , the weakest in ...
... honour- able gentleman who led us in this House . Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him , he acted his part with alacrity and resolution . We all felt inspired by the example he gave us , down even to myself , the weakest in ...
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