The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... monarchy and a republic . He denied that the present scheme of things in France did at all deserve the respectable name of a re- public : he had therefore no comparison between monarchies and republics to make . - That what was done in ...
... monarchy and a republic . He denied that the present scheme of things in France did at all deserve the respectable name of a re- public : he had therefore no comparison between monarchies and republics to make . - That what was done in ...
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... monarchy he commends . " When that nameless thing , which has been lately set up in France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time ...
... monarchy he commends . " When that nameless thing , which has been lately set up in France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time ...
Side 14
... monarchy ; that in such an event he should overlook the captivity , disgrace , and degradation of an unfor- tunate prince , and the continual danger to a life which exists only to be endangered ; that he should overlook the utter ruin ...
... monarchy ; that in such an event he should overlook the captivity , disgrace , and degradation of an unfor- tunate prince , and the continual danger to a life which exists only to be endangered ; that he should overlook the utter ruin ...
Side 15
... monarchy , all the circumstances ought not to be wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise ...
... monarchy , all the circumstances ought not to be wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise ...
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... MONARCHY . " In the discussion of the Quebec bill which stood for yesterday , it was the intention of some persons to connect with this subject the French Re- volution , in hopes that Mr. Fox would be warmed by a collision with Mr ...
... MONARCHY . " In the discussion of the Quebec bill which stood for yesterday , it was the intention of some persons to connect with this subject the French Re- volution , in hopes that Mr. Fox would be warmed by a collision with Mr ...
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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...