A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol, Previous to the Late Election in that City, Upon Certain Points Relative to His Parliamentary ConductJ. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1780 - 68 pages |
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... faved you from " the pelting of that pitiless storm , " to which the loofe improvidence , the cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face , fo as to provide against it in time , have exposed this degraded nation ...
... faved you from " the pelting of that pitiless storm , " to which the loofe improvidence , the cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face , fo as to provide against it in time , have exposed this degraded nation ...
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... faved difgraces and diftreffes that are unutterable . Do you remember our commiffion ? We fent out a folemn embaffy across the Atlantic oceán , to lay the Crown , the Peerage , the Commons of Great Britain , at the feet of the American ...
... faved difgraces and diftreffes that are unutterable . Do you remember our commiffion ? We fent out a folemn embaffy across the Atlantic oceán , to lay the Crown , the Peerage , the Commons of Great Britain , at the feet of the American ...
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... faved the difgrace of their formal reception , only because the Congrefs fcorned to receive them ; whilft the State - houfe of independent Phila- delphia opened her doors to the public entry of the ambaffador of France . From war and ...
... faved the difgrace of their formal reception , only because the Congrefs fcorned to receive them ; whilft the State - houfe of independent Phila- delphia opened her doors to the public entry of the ambaffador of France . From war and ...
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