The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... ideas , but the prevalent opinions and sentiments of a nation , renowned for wisdom , and celebrated in all ages for a well- understood and well - regulated love of freedom . This was the avowed purpose of the far greater part of his ...
... ideas , but the prevalent opinions and sentiments of a nation , renowned for wisdom , and celebrated in all ages for a well- understood and well - regulated love of freedom . This was the avowed purpose of the far greater part of his ...
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... idea consonant to the 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 ...
... idea consonant to the 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 ...
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... ideas of his own party . The 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 ...
... ideas of his own party . The 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 ...
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... ideas , or upon French . This furnished an oppo examining into the value of the French constitut considered as applicable to colonial government own nature . The bill too was in a committee . By lege of speaking as often as he pleased ...
... ideas , or upon French . This furnished an oppo examining into the value of the French constitut considered as applicable to colonial government own nature . The bill too was in a committee . By lege of speaking as often as he pleased ...
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... ideas on this subject , that it is far more difficult to understand the nature of the charge , than to refute it when understood . Mr. Fox's friends were , it seems , seized with a sudden panic terror lest he should pass for a repub ...
... ideas on this subject , that it is far more difficult to understand the nature of the charge , than to refute it when understood . Mr. Fox's friends were , it seems , seized with a sudden panic terror lest he should pass for a repub ...
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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...