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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... member of parliament's paying a respectful court to his conftituents . If I were confcious to my- felf that pleasure or diffipation , or low unworthy occupations , had detained me from perfonal attendance on you , I would readily admit ...
... member of parliament's paying a respectful court to his conftituents . If I were confcious to my- felf that pleasure or diffipation , or low unworthy occupations , had detained me from perfonal attendance on you , I would readily admit ...
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... member of parliament , There was nothing too laborious , or too low for me to undertake . The meannefs of the business was raised by the dignity of the object . If fome leffer matters have flipped through my fingers , it was because I ...
... member of parliament , There was nothing too laborious , or too low for me to undertake . The meannefs of the business was raised by the dignity of the object . If fome leffer matters have flipped through my fingers , it was because I ...
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... member of parliament . A I certainly have very warm good wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was , as a man attached to your interefts , and zealous for the confervation of your power ...
... member of parliament . A I certainly have very warm good wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was , as a man attached to your interefts , and zealous for the confervation of your power ...
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... members on all fides , and par- ticularly on ours , added much to their high ... Parliament : I la- boured out of Parliament . If therefore the refolu- tion ... member was found hardy enough to propofe fo infamous a thing ; and on full ...
... members on all fides , and par- ticularly on ours , added much to their high ... Parliament : I la- boured out of Parliament . If therefore the refolu- tion ... member was found hardy enough to propofe fo infamous a thing ; and on full ...
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... Parliament . " It is certainly not pleafing to be put out of the public fervice . But I wish to be a member of Parliament , to have my fhare of doing good , and refifting evil . It would therefore be abfurd to re- nounce my objects , in ...
... Parliament . " It is certainly not pleafing to be put out of the public fervice . But I wish to be a member of Parliament , to have my fhare of doing good , and refifting evil . It would therefore be abfurd to re- nounce my objects , in ...
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