The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... persons should be disposed to estimate the merit of a composition upon the standard of their own ability . In their critical censure , though Mr. Burke may find him- self humbled by it as a writer , as a man , and as an English- man ...
... persons should be disposed to estimate the merit of a composition upon the standard of their own ability . In their critical censure , though Mr. Burke may find him- self humbled by it as a writer , as a man , and as an English- man ...
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... persons of their just credit and influence would dispose the greater number to an agreement with timents ; and perhaps might induce the whole tacit acquiescence in their declarations , under a na not always an improper , dislike of ...
... persons of their just credit and influence would dispose the greater number to an agreement with timents ; and perhaps might induce the whole tacit acquiescence in their declarations , under a na not always an improper , dislike of ...
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... persons in that description , it is to be con- sidered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private liberty of thinking . The author cannot reckon upon it . It has nothing to do with them as members of a party . In ...
... persons in that description , it is to be con- sidered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private liberty of thinking . The author cannot reckon upon it . It has nothing to do with them as members of a party . In ...
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... 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 to reflect seriously on the transaction , they will think them ...
... 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 to reflect seriously on the transaction , they will think them ...
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... persons who administer it , or in both . These events cannot in reason be separated . For instance , when we praise our Revolution of 1688 , though the nation in that act was on the defensive , and was justified in incurring all the ...
... persons who administer it , or in both . These events cannot in reason be separated . For instance , when we praise our Revolution of 1688 , though the nation in that act was on the defensive , and was justified in incurring all the ...
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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...