The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Miscellaneous speeches, letters, and fragments. Abridgment of English history, etc. With a general indexG. Bell & sons, 1890 - Political science |
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... England at the time of the Invasion • • VII . Of the Laws and Institutions of the Saxons • BOOK III . 272 279 CHAP ... England REPORT , made on the 30th April , 1794 , from the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the ...
... England at the time of the Invasion • • VII . Of the Laws and Institutions of the Saxons • BOOK III . 272 279 CHAP ... England REPORT , made on the 30th April , 1794 , from the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inspect the ...
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... England . If this was not directly the fact , this at least seems very pro- bable , that papal authority was much lower in Ireland than in other countries . This union was made under the author- ity of an arbitrary grant of Pope Adrian ...
... England . If this was not directly the fact , this at least seems very pro- bable , that papal authority was much lower in Ireland than in other countries . This union was made under the author- ity of an arbitrary grant of Pope Adrian ...
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... England . It contains some public articles relative to the whole body of the Roman Catholics in that kingdom , and some with regard to the security of the greater part of the inhabitants of five counties . What the latter were , or in ...
... England . It contains some public articles relative to the whole body of the Roman Catholics in that kingdom , and some with regard to the security of the greater part of the inhabitants of five counties . What the latter were , or in ...
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... England - Holland . But there may be danger of wishing a change , even where no religious motive can operate ; and every enemy to such a state comes as a friend to the subject ; and where other countries are under terror , they begin to ...
... England - Holland . But there may be danger of wishing a change , even where no religious motive can operate ; and every enemy to such a state comes as a friend to the subject ; and where other countries are under terror , they begin to ...
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... England , that is , by a liberal distribution of places and pensions , and other graces of government . This last is wide indeed of the signification of the word . New ascendency is the old mastership . It is neither more nor less than ...
... England , that is , by a liberal distribution of places and pensions , and other graces of government . This last is wide indeed of the signification of the word . New ascendency is the old mastership . It is neither more nor less than ...
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Page 107 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.