The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... cause , a more desirable thing than an affection liable to be any way disturbed . When the trial is by friends , if the decision should happen to be fa- vourable , the honour of the acquittal is lessened ; if adverse , the condemnation ...
... cause , a more desirable thing than an affection liable to be any way disturbed . When the trial is by friends , if the decision should happen to be fa- vourable , the honour of the acquittal is lessened ; if adverse , the condemnation ...
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... cause . Had his wo recognised as a pattern for dexterous argument and ful eloquence , yet if it tended to establish maxims , spire sentiments , adverse to the wise and free con of this kingdom , he would only have cause to lam it ...
... cause . Had his wo recognised as a pattern for dexterous argument and ful eloquence , yet if it tended to establish maxims , spire sentiments , adverse to the wise and free con of this kingdom , he would only have cause to lam it ...
Side 5
... cause of apprehension that the errors of this writer should be taken for theirs . They might disapprove ; it was not necessary they should disavow him , as they have done in the whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither ...
... cause of apprehension that the errors of this writer should be taken for theirs . They might disapprove ; it was not necessary they should disavow him , as they have done in the whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither ...
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... cause of admiration . These are strong assertions . They required strong proofs . The member who laid down these positions was and is ready to give , in his place , to each position decisive evidence , cor- respondent to the nature and ...
... cause of admiration . These are strong assertions . They required strong proofs . The member who laid down these positions was and is ready to give , in his place , to each position decisive evidence , cor- respondent to the nature and ...
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... cause they maintain . What ! alter our sublime con - f stitution , the glory of France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened ...
... cause they maintain . What ! alter our sublime con - f stitution , the glory of France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened ...
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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...