The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... England " ( as this paper gives out ) is as follows : " The great and firm body of the Whigs of England , true to ciples , have decided on the dispute between Mr. Fox and M and the former is declared to have maintained the pure doctrin ...
... England " ( as this paper gives out ) is as follows : " The great and firm body of the Whigs of England , true to ciples , have decided on the dispute between Mr. Fox and M and the former is declared to have maintained the pure doctrin ...
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... England , I speak servation , not from authority . " To say then , that the book did not contain the se of their party , is not to contradict the author , or themselves . If the party had denied his doctrines current opinions of the ...
... England , I speak servation , not from authority . " To say then , that the book did not contain the se of their party , is not to contradict the author , or themselves . If the party had denied his doctrines current opinions of the ...
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... England , as any person amongst them can be of the ideas of his own party . The French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period . of that event , unless they choose to imitate ...
... England , as any person amongst them can be of the ideas of his own party . The French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period . of that event , unless they choose to imitate ...
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... England . In that case , it was surely proper for those , who had far other thoughts of the French constitution , to scrutinize that plan which has been recommended to our imitation by active and zealous factions , at home and abroad ...
... England . In that case , it was surely proper for those , who had far other thoughts of the French constitution , to scrutinize that plan which has been recommended to our imitation by active and zealous factions , at home and abroad ...
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... with no small ostentation , and with very little of necessity , or perhaps of propriety . What mode , or what time , of discussing the conduct of the French be faction in England would not equally tend to kindle 20 AN APPEAL FROM.
... with no small ostentation , and with very little of necessity , or perhaps of propriety . What mode , or what time , of discussing the conduct of the French be faction in England would not equally tend to kindle 20 AN APPEAL FROM.
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...