The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... common weakness of wishes to owe no part of the indulgence of the wo forgetfulness . He is at issue with the party before sent , and , if ever he can reach it , before the comin ation . The author , several months previous to his pu ...
... common weakness of wishes to owe no part of the indulgence of the wo forgetfulness . He is at issue with the party before sent , and , if ever he can reach it , before the comin ation . The author , several months previous to his pu ...
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... common enemies to man- kind had held out with the same fraudulent ends and pre- tences with which they had uniformly conducted every part of their proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example ...
... common enemies to man- kind had held out with the same fraudulent ends and pre- tences with which they had uniformly conducted every part of their proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example ...
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... common - place in favour of slavery and tyranny , delivered to a popular assembly , would indeed be a bold defiance to all the principles of rhetoric . But in a question whether any particular constitution is or is not a plan of ...
... common - place in favour of slavery and tyranny , delivered to a popular assembly , would indeed be a bold defiance to all the principles of rhetoric . But in a question whether any particular constitution is or is not a plan of ...
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Edmund Burke. more . quisition . If it only appeared in the works of common pamphleteers , Mr. Burke might safely trust to his reputa- tion . When thus urged , he ought , perhaps , to do a little It shall be as little as possible , for I ...
Edmund Burke. more . quisition . If it only appeared in the works of common pamphleteers , Mr. Burke might safely trust to his reputa- tion . When thus urged , he ought , perhaps , to do a little It shall be as little as possible , for I ...
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... charge upon that people not to be true . If the principles of all he has said and wrote on the occasion be viewed with common temper , the gentlemen of the party 030 AN APPEAL FROM will perceive , that , on. THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 29.
... charge upon that people not to be true . If the principles of all he has said and wrote on the occasion be viewed with common temper , the gentlemen of the party 030 AN APPEAL FROM will perceive , that , on. THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 29.
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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...