The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... European world of our age ; that therefore the lovers of it must be lovers , not of liberty , but , if they really understand its nature , of the lowest and basest of all servitude . He proposed to prove , that the present state of ...
... European world of our age ; that therefore the lovers of it must be lovers , not of liberty , but , if they really understand its nature , of the lowest and basest of all servitude . He proposed to prove , that the present state of ...
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... Europe , the cause of wars would be taken away . " — But , after all , what is this metaphor called a crown , or rather what is monarchy ? Is it a thing , or is it a name , or is it a fraud ? Is it a contrivance of human wisdom , ' or ...
... Europe , the cause of wars would be taken away . " — But , after all , what is this metaphor called a crown , or rather what is monarchy ? Is it a thing , or is it a name , or is it a fraud ? Is it a contrivance of human wisdom , ' or ...
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... Europe ; after the soldiery had been debauched from their officers ; after property had lost its weight and consideration , along with its security ; after voluntary clubs and associa- tions of factious and unprincipled men were ...
... Europe ; after the soldiery had been debauched from their officers ; after property had lost its weight and consideration , along with its security ; after voluntary clubs and associa- tions of factious and unprincipled men were ...
Side 96
... Europe . This nation , as possessing the greatest influence , they wish most to corrupt , as by that means they are assured the con- tagion must become general . I hope , therefore , I shall be excused , if I endeavour to show , as ...
... Europe . This nation , as possessing the greatest influence , they wish most to corrupt , as by that means they are assured the con- tagion must become general . I hope , therefore , I shall be excused , if I endeavour to show , as ...
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... Europe , and in bills upon the British companies , you will scarcely think the matter ove we fix the commencement of this extraction of the Carnatic at a period no earlier than the yea close it in the year 1780 , it probably will not a ...
... Europe , and in bills upon the British companies , you will scarcely think the matter ove we fix the commencement of this extraction of the Carnatic at a period no earlier than the yea close it in the year 1780 , it probably will not a ...
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Side 541 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Side 344 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Side 157 - ... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Side 158 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...