You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 78by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 ;... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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