The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... French Revolut is , in their opinion of the behaviour of the French and its revolt from its officers . At the time of the declaration on this subject , he did not imagine th of these two gentlemen had extended a great wa themselves . He ...
... French Revolut is , in their opinion of the behaviour of the French and its revolt from its officers . At the time of the declaration on this subject , he did not imagine th of these two gentlemen had extended a great wa themselves . He ...
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... French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period . of that event , unless they choose to imitate any of its acts , or to consolidate any principles of that Revolution with their ...
... French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period . of that event , unless they choose to imitate any of its acts , or to consolidate any principles of that Revolution with their ...
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... French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they ...
... French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they ...
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... French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very advan- tageous in every case , and under every circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their ...
... French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very advan- tageous in every case , and under every circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their ...
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... French government was so bad , that nothing worse in the infinite devices of men could come in its place . They who have brought France to its present condition ought to prove also , by something better than prattling about the Bastile ...
... French government was so bad , that nothing worse in the infinite devices of men could come in its place . They who have brought France to its present condition ought to prove also , by something better than prattling about the Bastile ...
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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...