The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country , " it might at first have led the hearer into an opinion , that the ...
... France , was described as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty , which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country , " it might at first have led the hearer into an opinion , that the ...
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... France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened age ! Have we not produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a ...
... France , the envy of the world , the pattern for mankind , the master - piece of legislation , the col- lected and concentrated glory of this enlightened age ! Have we not produced it ready made and ready armed , mature in its birth , a ...
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... France i much further , and reducing monarchy to its present Mr. Burke does not allow that a sufficient argumen minem is inferrible from these premises . If the horro excesses of an absolute monarchy furnishes a rea abolishing it , no ...
... France i much further , and reducing monarchy to its present Mr. Burke does not allow that a sufficient argumen minem is inferrible from these premises . If the horro excesses of an absolute monarchy furnishes a rea abolishing it , no ...
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... France , without infinite detriment to them , as well in the event as in the experiment , could be brought into a repub- lican form ; but that everything republican which can be in- troduced with safety into either of them , must be ...
... France , without infinite detriment to them , as well in the event as in the experiment , could be brought into a repub- lican form ; but that everything republican which can be in- troduced with safety into either of them , must be ...
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... France , and whose name designates its original . " Of the charters and corporations , to whose rights , a few years ago , these gentlemen were so tremblingly alive , they say , " that when the people of England come to reflect upon ...
... France , and whose name designates its original . " Of the charters and corporations , to whose rights , a few years ago , these gentlemen were so tremblingly alive , they say , " that when the people of England come to reflect upon ...
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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...