The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ; to the severity of whose judgment I owe more . Ar Mr. Burke's time of life , and in his ...
... believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ; to the severity of whose judgment I owe more . Ar Mr. Burke's time of life , and in his ...
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... denied his doctrines current opinions of the majority in the nation , th have put the question on its true issue . There , I believe , his censurers will find on the trial , that t is as faithful a representative of the general sentiment ...
... denied his doctrines current opinions of the majority in the nation , th have put the question on its true issue . There , I believe , his censurers will find on the trial , that t is as faithful a representative of the general sentiment ...
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... believe it . Far from meriting the praises of a great genius like Mr. Fox , it cannot be approved by any man of common sense , or comon information . He cannot admire the change of one piece of barbarism for another , and a worse . He ...
... believe it . Far from meriting the praises of a great genius like Mr. Fox , it cannot be approved by any man of common sense , or comon information . He cannot admire the change of one piece of barbarism for another , and a worse . He ...
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... believe to be true , ) I would ask , when did the newspapers forbear to charge Mr. Fox , or Mr. Burke himself , with republican prin- ciples , or any other principles which they thought could render both of them odious , sometimes to ...
... believe to be true , ) I would ask , when did the newspapers forbear to charge Mr. Fox , or Mr. Burke himself , with republican prin- ciples , or any other principles which they thought could render both of them odious , sometimes to ...
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... believe , if he does no wilfully to abandon his cause and his reputation , tha ciples , fundamentally at variance with those of his bo fundamentally false . What those principles , the an to his , really are , he can only discover from ...
... believe , if he does no wilfully to abandon his cause and his reputation , tha ciples , fundamentally at variance with those of his bo fundamentally false . What those principles , the an to his , really are , he can only discover 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...