The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... proceedings of our day , that by one book he has disgraced the whole tenour of his life . Thus they dismiss their old partner of the war . He is advised to retire , whilst they continue to serve the public upon wiser princi AN APPEAL ...
... proceedings of our day , that by one book he has disgraced the whole tenour of his life . Thus they dismiss their old partner of the war . He is advised to retire , whilst they continue to serve the public upon wiser princi AN APPEAL ...
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... proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example , by an informed and sagacious British senator , to any other country . - That far from peace and good - will to men , they meditated war against all ...
... proceeding , was a coarse and clumsy deception , unworthy to be proposed as an example , by an informed and sagacious British senator , to any other country . - That far from peace and good - will to men , they meditated war against all ...
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... proceeding , attr conduct to a very different interpretation of hi They say , that through corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to prevent th intentions of his ...
... proceeding , attr conduct to a very different interpretation of hi They say , that through corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to prevent th intentions of his ...
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... proceeding ; lofty , indeed , but plain and consistent . Admit , however , for a moment , and merely for argument , that this gentleman had as good a right to continue as they had to begin these discussions ; in candour and equity they ...
... proceeding ; lofty , indeed , but plain and consistent . Admit , however , for a moment , and merely for argument , that this gentleman had as good a right to continue as they had to begin these discussions ; in candour and equity they ...
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... proceedings in France , in which a king , who had voluntarily and formally divested himself of the right of taxation , and of all other species of arbitrary power , has been dethroned ? -Is it be- cause Mr. Burke wished to have America ...
... proceedings in France , in which a king , who had voluntarily and formally divested himself of the right of taxation , and of all other species of arbitrary power , has been dethroned ? -Is it be- cause Mr. Burke wished to have America ...
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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...