The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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Side 4
... but within w the practice is to be circumscribed , and with what e the doctrine which supports it is to be received , it present purpose to define . The present question ha to do with their motives ; it only regards the.
... but within w the practice is to be circumscribed , and with what e the doctrine which supports it is to be received , it present purpose to define . The present question ha to do with their motives ; it only regards the.
Side 5
... doctrine of his book , or favourable to his conduct , lurks in the minds of any persons in that description , it is to be con- sidered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private liberty of thinking . The author cannot ...
... doctrine of his book , or favourable to his conduct , lurks in the minds of any persons in that description , it is to be con- sidered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private liberty of thinking . The author cannot ...
Side 6
... doctrines current opinions of the majority in the nation , th have put the question on its true issue . There , I believe , his censurers will find on the trial , that t is as faithful a representative of the general sentiment of.
... doctrines current opinions of the majority in the nation , th have put the question on its true issue . There , I believe , his censurers will find on the trial , that t is as faithful a representative of the general sentiment of.
Side 23
... doctrine , Mr. Burke never attempted , in any one particular , either to criminate or to recriminate . It may be said , that he had nothing of the kind in his power . This he does not contro- vert . He certainly had it not in his ...
... doctrine , Mr. Burke never attempted , in any one particular , either to criminate or to recriminate . It may be said , that he had nothing of the kind in his power . This he does not contro- vert . He certainly had it not in his ...
Side 24
... doctrines o books lately circulated are the principles of the though from the vehement declarations against his op he is at some loss how to judge otherwise . For the present , my plan does not render it neces say anything further ...
... doctrines o books lately circulated are the principles of the though from the vehement declarations against his op he is at some loss how to judge otherwise . For the present , my plan does not render it neces say anything further ...
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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...