The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... necessary office , in full parliament to declare to the present age , and to as late a posterity as shall take any concern in the proceedings of our day , that by one book he has disgraced the whole tenour of his life . Thus they ...
... necessary office , in full parliament to declare to the present age , and to as late a posterity as shall take any concern in the proceedings of our day , that by one book he has disgraced the whole tenour of his life . Thus they ...
Side 5
... necessary they should disavow him , as they have done in the whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither in the whole , nor in any of the parts , were they directly , or by any implication , in- volved . The author was ...
... necessary they should disavow him , as they have done in the whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither in the whole , nor in any of the parts , were they directly , or by any implication , in- volved . The author was ...
Side 11
... necessary to inquire , first , whether , on ge- neral principles , he ought to have been suffered to prove his allegations ? Secondly , whether the time he had chosen was so very unseasonable as to make his exercise of a parlia mentary ...
... necessary to inquire , first , whether , on ge- neral principles , he ought to have been suffered to prove his allegations ? Secondly , whether the time he had chosen was so very unseasonable as to make his exercise of a parlia mentary ...
Side 18
... necessary , it might be show was not the first to bring these discussions into I nor the first to renew them in this session . The torious . As to the Quebec bill , they were intro the debate upon that subject for two plain reas that as ...
... necessary , it might be show was not the first to bring these discussions into I nor the first to renew them in this session . The torious . As to the Quebec bill , they were intro the debate upon that subject for two plain reas that as ...
Side 19
... necessary to advert to a paragraph which appeared in a paper in the minority interest some time before this debate . A very dark intrigue has lately been discovered , the authors of which are well known to us ; but until the glorious ...
... necessary to advert to a paragraph which appeared in a paper in the minority interest some time before this debate . A very dark intrigue has lately been discovered , the authors of which are well known to us ; but until the glorious ...
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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...