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" It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your... "
Selections - Page 204
by Edmund Burke - 1925 - 469 pages
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Burke, Select Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution — which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal...base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. i. , ':• All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedicnce, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existeuce, are in truth everything, and...
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Blackie's graded readers, ed. by M. Paterson, Part 8

Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy; and infuses into both that liberal...base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. 4. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 pages
...from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a'base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber." Gentlemen, to conclude — My fervent wish...
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Modern Europe, a school history. To 1859. To the fall of Napoleon iii

John Lord - 1882 - 618 pages
...from the sense of the deep stake they have in such glorious institutions, that gives you year army and navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be but a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber." Colonel Barr6 and 306 BATTLE OF BUNKER.S...
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Essays in history and biography

Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 pages
...of loyal obedience and dutiful attachment to the State, without which, as Burke eloquently said, " Your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber," was directly due to the genius and character of Lord Chatham. He was a strong man, and he communicated...
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Essays in History and Biography: Including the Defence of Mary Stuart

Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 pages
...of loyal obedience and dutiful attachment to the State, without which, as Burke eloquently said, " Your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber," was directly due to the genius and character of Lord Chatham. He was a strong man, and he communicated...
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History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent ...

George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 pages
...to the minutest member. Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? " All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who think that nothing, exists but what is gross and material ; and who, therefore, far from being qualified...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 4

George Bancroft - 1884 - 480 pages
...to the minutest member. Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? " All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material; and who, therefore, far from being qualified...
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Beacon Lights of History: Warriors and statesmen

John Lord - 1884 - 506 pages
...do not make a government. It is the spirit that pervades and vivifies an empire which infuses that obedience without which your army would be a base rabble and your navy nothing but rotten timber." Such is a fair specimen of his eloquence, — earnest, practical, to the point, yet appealing to exalted...
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