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" ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption... "
Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ... - Page 630
by Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 781 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form...to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 52

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I refleft upon thefe effeCts, when I f:e how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I reflect upon thefe eflects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all' prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, ancf die away within me. My rigour...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings ...

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...has been-fuffered to take her own way to perfection: when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour...
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The Columbian Phenix and Boston Review: Containing Useful ..., Volume 1

1800 - 458 pages
...nature has been lufiered to take her own way to perfection : when I refka upon thefe effefts, when 1 fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour...
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The Annual Necrology, for 1797-8;: Including, Also, Various Articles of ...

1800 - 702 pages
...lullVred to take her own way to perfection : when I refieft upon thefe effefls, when I fee how p-o6tab!e they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all rn-fcription in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 213

1911 - 592 pages
...the English Colonies in America, ' that in general they owe little ' or nothing to any care of ours ; and that they are not squeezed ' into this happy form...been suffered to take her own ' way to perfection.' It must be admitted that the freedom of Oxford and Cambridge, particularly in the vexed sphere of religious...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form...to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form...perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when 1 see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption...
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