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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ... - Page 204
by Sir James Prior - 1824
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...after the moft triumphant violence. You have got all the intermediate evils of war into the bargain. I think I know America. If I do not, my ignorance is incurable, for I have fpared no pains to underftand it ; and I do moft folemnly affure thofeof my conftituents who put any...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - Forensic orations - 1810 - 420 pages
...have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ; — and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in opinions ; but before I change any one of those that I have given you to-day, I must...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...If I have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived;—and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in opinions; but before I change any one of those that I have given you to-day, I must...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 1

James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 416 pages
...have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ;—- aad if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in opinions ; but before I change any one of those that I have given you to-day, I must...
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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ..., Volume 21

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 754 pages
...I havedeceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ; — and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in opinions; but before I change anyone of those that I have given you to-day, I must...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 21

Trials - 1816 - 752 pages
...have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ; — and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in opinions ; but before I change any one of those that I have given you to-day, I must...
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Eminent British Lawyers

Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...If I have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ; and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff in my opinions ; but before I change any one of those which I have given you to-day,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...after the most triumphant violence. You have got all the intermediate evils of war into the bargain. language of the preceding acts of Elizabeth and James) that on the preserving " lias arisen from a total misconception of the object: that our means of originally holding America,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...after the most triumphant violence. You have got all the intermediate evils of war into i he bargain. I think I know America. If I do not, my ignorance...have spared no pains to understand it ; and I do most soleumly assure those of my constituents who put any sort of confidence in my industry and integrity,...
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The Monthly chronicle; a national journal, Volume 5

1840 - 582 pages
...If I have deceived you on the subject, I am myself deceived ; and if I am misled through ignorance, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it. I am not stiff' in opinions ; but before I change any one of those that I have given you to-day, I...
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