The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... hope , remain to them , in a manner more to their tion , than he shall slide down , in silence and obscu slope of his declining days , is best known to Him sures out years , and days , and fortunes . The quality of the sentence does not ...
... hope , remain to them , in a manner more to their tion , than he shall slide down , in silence and obscu slope of his declining days , is best known to Him sures out years , and days , and fortunes . The quality of the sentence does not ...
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... hope ; that we become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure ...
... hope ; that we become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure ...
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... hope measure to supply the want of support which he h much reason to apprehend . In a committee it in his power to bring the questions from gene facts ; from declamation to discussion . Some actually received from this privilege . These ...
... hope measure to supply the want of support which he h much reason to apprehend . In a committee it in his power to bring the questions from gene facts ; from declamation to discussion . Some actually received from this privilege . These ...
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... hope not much is wanting . To be totally silent on his charges would not be respectful to Mr. Fox . Accusations sometimes derive a weight from the persons who make them , to which they are not entitled for their matter . He who thinks ...
... hope not much is wanting . To be totally silent on his charges would not be respectful to Mr. Fox . Accusations sometimes derive a weight from the persons who make them , to which they are not entitled for their matter . He who thinks ...
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... hope from his service and more to fear from his loss than now they have , never chose to find any inconsistency between his acts and expressions in favour of liberty , and his votes on those questions . But there is a time for all ...
... hope from his service and more to fear from his loss than now they have , never chose to find any inconsistency between his acts and expressions in favour of liberty , and his votes on those questions . But there is a time for all ...
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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...