The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... church clergy , who had petitioned the House of Commons to be dis- tharged from the subscription . Although he supported the dissenters in their petition for the indulgence which he had refused to the clergy of the established church ...
... church clergy , who had petitioned the House of Commons to be dis- tharged from the subscription . Although he supported the dissenters in their petition for the indulgence which he had refused to the clergy of the established church ...
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... church and state ; against all the parts and orders which compose the one and the other ? No persons were more fiercely active against Mr. Fox , and against the measures of the House of Commons dissolved in 1784 , which Mr. Burke ...
... church and state ; against all the parts and orders which compose the one and the other ? No persons were more fiercely active against Mr. Fox , and against the measures of the House of Commons dissolved in 1784 , which Mr. Burke ...
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... church of England , and which ought to be condemned by the doc- trines of all churches professing Christianity . MR . SOLICITOR - GENERAL , SIR ROBERT EYRE . Revolution no precedent for voluntary can- celling allegi- ance . " The ...
... church of England , and which ought to be condemned by the doc- trines of all churches professing Christianity . MR . SOLICITOR - GENERAL , SIR ROBERT EYRE . Revolution no precedent for voluntary can- celling allegi- ance . " The ...
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... church , where cases of necessity may be understood to be excepted by a tacit implication , as the counsel have allowed ; but is preaching directly against the resist- ance at the Revolution , which , in the course of this debate , has ...
... church , where cases of necessity may be understood to be excepted by a tacit implication , as the counsel have allowed ; but is preaching directly against the resist- ance at the Revolution , which , in the course of this debate , has ...
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... church and state , which is a case that t England could never suppose , provide for , or have in * * * * * Sir Joseph Jekyl , so often quoted , considered the tion of the monarchy , and of the rights and prerog the crown , as essential ...
... church and state , which is a case that t England could never suppose , provide for , or have in * * * * * Sir Joseph Jekyl , so often quoted , considered the tion of the monarchy , and of the rights and prerog the crown , as essential ...
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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...