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" 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... "
Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Page 145
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

John Martin Vincent - Conspiracy - 1909 - 670 pages
...inheritance, derived to us from our forefathers, and 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." Even the revolution had been made " to preserve ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient...
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Selections of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 498 pages
...reference whatever to 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; an 'iheritable peerage; and a House of Commons and a people "Denting privileges, franchises, and liberties,...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 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...an inheritable crown ; an inheritable peerage ; and an house of commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 221

1915 - 470 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...inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. . . . Always acting...
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Democracy at the Crossways: A Study in Politics and History, with Special ...

Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - Democracy - 1918 - 538 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...inheritable peerage, and a house of commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors." — BURKE, French...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially e me the liberty to an house of commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially y of those overgrown military establishments, which,...your liberty, and that the ] love of the one ought erown; an inheritable peerage; and an house of commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises,...
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Selections

Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown ; an inheritable peerage...
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Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual ...

Franklin Le Van Baumer - History - 1978 - 824 pages
...derived to us from our fore-fathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We • Edmund Burke: Works (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1865), vol. Ill, pp. 274-6, 307-1 3, 345-7,...
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The Romantic Age in Prose: An Anthology

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatsoever to any other more general or prior right. By this...an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and an House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line...
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