The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... kingdom , he would only have cause to lam it possessed qualities fitted to perpetuate the memo offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the common ...
... kingdom , he would only have cause to lam it possessed qualities fitted to perpetuate the memo offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the common ...
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... kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of the modern usages , of the ...
... kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of the modern usages , of the ...
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... attempt against our ancient laws , rights , an are now endeavouring to work the destruction of t of this kingdom , and the whole of its constitution 1 Lord Lansdowne . obliged , from the concessions he wished to be made.
... attempt against our ancient laws , rights , an are now endeavouring to work the destruction of t of this kingdom , and the whole of its constitution 1 Lord Lansdowne . obliged , from the concessions he wished to be made.
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... kingdom , and calculated to excite vexatious questions , into a parliamentary proceeding , to do with the French Assembly , which defies all precedent , and places its whole glory in realizing what had been thought Mr. Windham . the ...
... kingdom , and calculated to excite vexatious questions , into a parliamentary proceeding , to do with the French Assembly , which defies all precedent , and places its whole glory in realizing what had been thought Mr. Windham . the ...
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... kingdom . But he is not guilty in any sense . I main- tain that in his Reflections he has stated the Revolution and the Settlement upon their true principles of legal reason and constitutional policy . 6 His authorities are the acts and ...
... kingdom . But he is not guilty in any sense . I main- tain that in his Reflections he has stated the Revolution and the Settlement upon their true principles of legal reason and constitutional policy . 6 His authorities are the acts and ...
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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...