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The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 78
by Edmund Burke - 1803
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown...
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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown...
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The Government of England: Its Structure and Its Development

William Edward Hearn - 1867 - 588 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right.* As Lord Macaulay has observed, in the great debates of our history there is not a word about Timoleon...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belong* 1 W. and M. ing to the people of this kingdom, without any reference...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to bo transmitted to our posterity, as an estate specially e weight that his mind imposed upon theirs, unsupported...by the popular spirit, he infused into them his own Constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable Crown,...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable Crown ;...
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Burke, Select Works, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;...
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The Liberal Movement in English Literature

William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 284 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially ning of this? constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;...
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The Theory of the State

Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - Political science - 1885 - 546 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right. . . . We have an inheritable crown ; an inheritable peerage ; and an house of commons and a people...
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