On the record
This right the nation hath asserted, and recovered out of the hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several times.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgThis right the nation hath asserted, and recovered out of the hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several times.
Burke claims that the nation has successfully reclaimed its rights from those who had taken them away.
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