The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... producing , joined to great clearness of intellect , to a just judgment , to a wonderful temper , and to true wis- dom . His sentiments with regard to them can never vary , AN APPEAL FROM without subjecting him to the just indignation ...
... producing , joined to great clearness of intellect , to a just judgment , to a wonderful temper , and to true wis- dom . His sentiments with regard to them can never vary , AN APPEAL FROM without subjecting him to the just indignation ...
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... produce . They declare it openly and decisively . Their intentions are not left equivocal . They are put out of all dispute by the thanks which formally , and as it were officially , they issue , in order to recommend and to promote the ...
... produce . They declare it openly and decisively . Their intentions are not left equivocal . They are put out of all dispute by the thanks which formally , and as it were officially , they issue , in order to recommend and to promote the ...
Side 9
... produce a false appearance of a majority . That this fictitious majority had fabricated a constitution , which , as ... producing future and ( if that were possible ) worse evils . - That it is not an undigest- ed , imperfect , and crude ...
... produce a false appearance of a majority . That this fictitious majority had fabricated a constitution , which , as ... producing future and ( if that were possible ) worse evils . - That it is not an undigest- ed , imperfect , and crude ...
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... produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a perfect goddess of wisdom and of war , hammered by our blacksmith midwives out of the brain of Jupiter him- self ? Have we not sworn our devout , profane , believing ...
... produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a perfect goddess of wisdom and of war , hammered by our blacksmith midwives out of the brain of Jupiter him- self ? Have we not sworn our devout , profane , believing ...
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... produced that effect with much more certainty , and much greater force . The Quebec bill , at worst , was only one of those opportunities , carefully sought , and industriously improved by himself . Mr. Sheridan had already brought ...
... produced that effect with much more certainty , and much greater force . The Quebec bill , at worst , was only one of those opportunities , carefully sought , and industriously improved by himself . Mr. Sheridan had already brought ...
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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...