The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... ment , it is plain he does not think their sentence in severe . Whether they , who are to continue in th which shortly he is to leave , will spend the long yea I hope , remain to them , in a manner more to their tion , than he shall ...
... ment , it is plain he does not think their sentence in severe . Whether they , who are to continue in th which shortly he is to leave , will spend the long yea I hope , remain to them , in a manner more to their tion , than he shall ...
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... ment and correction . How dare they to say so who have never made that experiment ? They are experimenters by their trade . They have made a hundred others , infinitely more hazardous . The English admirers of the forty - eight thousand ...
... ment and correction . How dare they to say so who have never made that experiment ? They are experimenters by their trade . They have made a hundred others , infinitely more hazardous . The English admirers of the forty - eight thousand ...
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... ment fundamentally and inviolably fixed in King , Lords , and Commons . - That the fundamental subversion of this ancient constitution , by one of its parts , having been attempted , and in effect accomplished , justified the Revolution ...
... ment fundamentally and inviolably fixed in King , Lords , and Commons . - That the fundamental subversion of this ancient constitution , by one of its parts , having been attempted , and in effect accomplished , justified the Revolution ...
Side 46
... ment are obvious . That the laws are the rule to both ; the common measure of the power of the crown , and of the obedience of the subject ; and if the executive part endeavours the subversion and total de- struction of the government ...
... ment are obvious . That the laws are the rule to both ; the common measure of the power of the crown , and of the obedience of the subject ; and if the executive part endeavours the subversion and total de- struction of the government ...
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... ment of their disease , so they did in the remedy . They saw there was no remedy left but the last ; and when that remedy took place , the whole frame of the government was restored entire and unhurt . This showed the excellent temper ...
... ment of their disease , so they did in the remedy . They saw there was no remedy left but the last ; and when that remedy took place , the whole frame of the government was restored entire and unhurt . This showed the excellent temper ...
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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...