The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the 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 ...
... means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the 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 ...
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... means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might ...
... means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might ...
Side 9
... means of producing future and ( if that were possible ) worse evils . - That it is not an undigest- ed , imperfect , and crude scheme of liberty , which may gra- dually be mellowed and ripened into an orderly and social freedom ; but ...
... means of producing future and ( if that were possible ) worse evils . - That it is not an undigest- ed , imperfect , and crude scheme of liberty , which may gra- dually be mellowed and ripened into an orderly and social freedom ; but ...
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... mean to comprehend in our calculation both the value of the thing parted with , and the value of the thing received ... means unfavourable to all the present happiness of millions of people , and to the utter ruin of several hundreds of ...
... mean to comprehend in our calculation both the value of the thing parted with , and the value of the thing received ... means unfavourable to all the present happiness of millions of people , and to the utter ruin of several hundreds of ...
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... means , than any man perhaps ever did in the same situation . He was the first man who , on the hustings , at a popular election , rejected the authority of instructions from consti- tuents ; or who , in any place , has argued so fully ...
... means , than any man perhaps ever did in the same situation . He was the first man who , on the hustings , at a popular election , rejected the authority of instructions from consti- tuents ; or who , in any place , has argued so fully ...
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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...