The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... opinion of the behaviour of the French and its revolt from its officers . At the time of the declaration on this subject , he did not imagine th of these two gentlemen had extended a great wa themselves . He was however well aware of ...
... opinion of the behaviour of the French and its revolt from its officers . At the time of the declaration on this subject , he did not imagine th of these two gentlemen had extended a great wa themselves . He was however well aware of ...
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... opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invective ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would have been as good as the other ...
... opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invective ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would have been as good as the other ...
Side 13
... opinion , that the construction of the new fabric was an object of admiration , as well as the demolition of the old . Mr. Fox , however , has explained himself ; and it would be too like that captious and cavilling spirit , which I so ...
... opinion , that the construction of the new fabric was an object of admiration , as well as the demolition of the old . Mr. Fox , however , has explained himself ; and it would be too like that captious and cavilling spirit , which I so ...
Side 19
... opinion of its being well or ill authenticated had no influence on his conduct . He meant only , to the best of his power , to guard the pub- lic against the ill designs of factions out of doors . What Mr. Burke did in parliament could ...
... opinion of its being well or ill authenticated had no influence on his conduct . He meant only , to the best of his power , to guard the pub- lic against the ill designs of factions out of doors . What Mr. Burke did in parliament could ...
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... opinions , and all his feelings . In that language I should hear a style correspondent to the proceeding ; lofty , indeed , but plain and consistent . Admit , however , for a moment , and merely for ... opinion , 22 : AN APPEAL FROM .
... opinions , and all his feelings . In that language I should hear a style correspondent to the proceeding ; lofty , indeed , but plain and consistent . Admit , however , for a moment , and merely for ... opinion , 22 : AN APPEAL FROM .
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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...