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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ... - Page 166
by Sir James Prior - 1824
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...the colonies are to recede from it infinitely ? When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance...our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium. 1 Lord Carmarthen. for their glory ? and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off,...
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The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of ...

John Cartwright - Bedford, John Russell, 6th Duke of, 1766-1839 - 1805 - 194 pages
...parent, and to reflect with a true filial " reverence the beauteous countenance of British liber" ty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our "...give them our weakness for " their strength ? our opprobium for their glory ? and " the slough of slavery which zee are not able to work " off, to serve...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...the colonies are to recede from it infinitely ? When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...the colonies are to recede from it infinitely ? When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance...turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution f are we to give them our weakness for their strength ; our opprobrium for their glory ; and the slough...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous , countetenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? » » . • • ( • * Lord Carmarthen- * If this be the case, ask yourselves this question : Will...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countetenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? * Lord Carmarthen. that the colonies would not have proceeded in supplying government as liberally,...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...from it infinitely ? When thi» child of our's wishes to assimilate to its parent, to reflect \vith a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? PjThus was this great man, merely for disclaiming metaphysical distinctions and shewing their inapplicability...
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Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802

William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...colonies are to recede from it infinitely' ? When this child of our's wishes to assimilate to its parent, to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty ; are we to-turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...the colonies are to recede from it infinitely ? When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance...their' glory ; and the slough of slavery, which we are npt able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33

England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...assembly. " The noble lord," said he, " calls the Americans our children, and such they are. But when our children ask for bread, shall we give them a stone...countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them only the deformed part of the British Constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength,...
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