The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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Side 14
... obtaining it . This is no reflection on the humanity of those persons . Their good nature I am the last man in the world to dispute . It only shows that they are not sufficiently informed , or sufficiently considerate . When they come ...
... obtaining it . This is no reflection on the humanity of those persons . Their good nature I am the last man in the world to dispute . It only shows that they are not sufficiently informed , or sufficiently considerate . When they come ...
Side 15
... obtain its rational ends , except that which they have pur- sued by means unfavourable to all the present happiness of millions of people , and to the utter ruin of several hundreds of thousands . In their political arrangements , men ...
... obtain its rational ends , except that which they have pur- sued by means unfavourable to all the present happiness of millions of people , and to the utter ruin of several hundreds of thousands . In their political arrangements , men ...
Side 28
... obtain but one , ) and rested wholly on the Whig inte thought himself bound to tell to the electors , both be after his election , exactly what a representative they expect in him . " The distinguishing part of our constitution ( he sai ...
... obtain but one , ) and rested wholly on the Whig inte thought himself bound to tell to the electors , both be after his election , exactly what a representative they expect in him . " The distinguishing part of our constitution ( he sai ...
Side 32
Edmund Burke. 32 AN APPEAL FROM and distracted , must at length obtain a decided s over us . On what part of his late publication , expression that might have escaped him in that w man authorized to charge Mr. Burke with a contra the ...
Edmund Burke. 32 AN APPEAL FROM and distracted , must at length obtain a decided s over us . On what part of his late publication , expression that might have escaped him in that w man authorized to charge Mr. Burke with a contra the ...
Side 41
... obtaining it , the use they would make of their do- minion . That writer is too well read in men not to know how often the desire and design of a tyrannic domination lurks in the claim of an extravagant liberty . Perhaps in the begin ...
... obtaining it , the use they would make of their do- minion . That writer is too well read in men not to know how often the desire and design of a tyrannic domination lurks in the claim of an extravagant liberty . Perhaps in the begin ...
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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...