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Talks on Writing English: Second series - Page 81
by Arlo Bates - 1901 - 259 pages
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...restive, and untractablo. whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. Thi? fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 pages
...restive, and intractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonists, probably, than in any other people...
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living fo». This fierce spirit ot .Cv. $> liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any...
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Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great ..., Volume 25

John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people...
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Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than inauy other people...
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An Address Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, on Its Sixtieth ...

Frederic De Peyster - 1865 - 96 pages
...and untractable, whenever they fee the leaft " attempt to wreft from them by force, or to muffle " from them by chicane, what they think the only " advantage worth living for. This fierce fpirit of " liberty is ftronger in the Englim Colonies, proba" bly, than in any other people...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce .spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people...
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