The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of the ...
... constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of the ...
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... constitution , than to attack the French . I do not determine what would be best for Mr. Pitt to do in his situation . I do not deny that he may have good reasons for his reserve . Perhaps they might have been as good for a similar ...
... constitution , than to attack the French . I do not determine what would be best for Mr. Pitt to do in his situation . I do not deny that he may have good reasons for his reserve . Perhaps they might have been as good for a similar ...
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... constitution is or is not a plan of rational liberty , this kind of rhetorical flourish in favour of freedom in general is surely a little out of its place . It is virtually a begging of the question . It is a song of triumph before the ...
... constitution is or is not a plan of rational liberty , this kind of rhetorical flourish in favour of freedom in general is surely a little out of its place . It is virtually a begging of the question . It is a song of triumph before the ...
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... constitution unalterable by any future legislature ? Have we not bound it on pos- terity for ever , though our abettors have declared that no one generation is competent to bind another ? Have we not obliged the members of every future ...
... constitution unalterable by any future legislature ? Have we not bound it on pos- terity for ever , though our abettors have declared that no one generation is competent to bind another ? Have we not obliged the members of every future ...
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... constitution for a Frend under English dominion . The question natur whether we should settle that constitution upo ideas , or upon French . This furnished an oppo examining into the value of the French constitut considered as ...
... constitution for a Frend under English dominion . The question natur whether we should settle that constitution upo ideas , or upon French . This furnished an oppo examining into the value of the French constitut considered as ...
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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...