The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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Side 8
... sure could not be denied , that no comparison was to be made between the British government and the French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with ...
... sure could not be denied , that no comparison was to be made between the British government and the French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with ...
Side 28
... sure he should no on that or any occasion , a single Tory vote , ( in fact 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 ...
... sure he should no on that or any occasion , a single Tory vote , ( in fact 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 ...
Side 55
... sure anchorage . In this manner these things have been always considered by our ancestors . There are some indeed who have the art of turning the very acts of parliament which were made for securing the hereditary succession in the ...
... sure anchorage . In this manner these things have been always considered by our ancestors . There are some indeed who have the art of turning the very acts of parliament which were made for securing the hereditary succession in the ...
Side 56
... sure it is the highest breach of that law to question the first principles of this government . " 99 " If the Doctor had been contented with the liberty he took of preaching up the duty of passive obedience , in the most extensive ...
... sure it is the highest breach of that law to question the first principles of this government . " 99 " If the Doctor had been contented with the liberty he took of preaching up the duty of passive obedience , in the most extensive ...
Side 64
... sure , when they are to obey , and whe No , my Lords , they know they are ob the ties of social creatures and Christians , for wrat science ' sake , to submit to their sovereign . The Co not abet humoursome factious arms : they aver t ...
... sure , when they are to obey , and whe No , my Lords , they know they are ob the ties of social creatures and Christians , for wrat science ' sake , to submit to their sovereign . The Co not abet humoursome factious arms : they aver t ...
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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...