The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invective ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would ...
... circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invective ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would ...
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... circumstances ought not to be wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise , must be ...
... circumstances ought not to be wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise , must be ...
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... circumstance which does equal honour to their justice and their prudence . If they express a degree of sensibility in being obliged to execute this wise and just sentence , from a consideration of some amiable or some pleasant qualities ...
... circumstance which does equal honour to their justice and their prudence . If they express a degree of sensibility in being obliged to execute this wise and just sentence , from a consideration of some amiable or some pleasant qualities ...
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... circumstances , and an inconsistency in principle . It was not then thought necessary to be freed of him as of an en- cumbrance .. These instances , a few among many , are produced as an answer to the insinuation of his having pursued ...
... circumstances , and an inconsistency in principle . It was not then thought necessary to be freed of him as of an en- cumbrance .. These instances , a few among many , are produced as an answer to the insinuation of his having pursued ...
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... circumstance of our freedom would have augmented the weight of their slavery . 1 Considering the Americans on that defensive footing , he thought Great Britain ought instantly to have closed with them by the repeal of the taxing act ...
... circumstance of our freedom would have augmented the weight of their slavery . 1 Considering the Americans on that defensive footing , he thought Great Britain ought instantly to have closed with them by the repeal of the taxing act ...
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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...