The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... give a dignity to the nature of which we all participa the whole of the party he has high respect . Upon indeed of the composition of all parties , he finds gre faction . It is , that in leaving the service of his cou leaves parliament ...
... give a dignity to the nature of which we all participa the whole of the party he has high respect . Upon indeed of the composition of all parties , he finds gre faction . It is , that in leaving the service of his cou leaves parliament ...
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... give his confidence to Mr. Fox , if the latter should be able , in a crisis like the present , to con- duct the government of the country with greater advantage to the public . " This patriotic declaration immediately alarmed the swarm ...
... give his confidence to Mr. Fox , if the latter should be able , in a crisis like the present , to con- duct the government of the country with greater advantage to the public . " This patriotic declaration immediately alarmed the swarm ...
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... give up so happy a situation without a Mr. Burke had several other conversations with that time , in none of which , soured and exaspera mind certainly was , did he discover any other wish of America than for a security to its ancient ...
... give up so happy a situation without a Mr. Burke had several other conversations with that time , in none of which , soured and exaspera mind certainly was , did he discover any other wish of America than for a security to its ancient ...
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... give me no answer . If I ask him what monarchy is , he believes it is something like a sinecure . " " The French constitution says , That the right of war and peace is in the nation . Where else should it reside , but in those who are ...
... give me no answer . If I ask him what monarchy is , he believes it is something like a sinecure . " " The French constitution says , That the right of war and peace is in the nation . Where else should it reside , but in those who are ...
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... give it ) over the persons and freedom of posterity for ever , was of the same tyrannical unfounded kind which James attempted to set up over the parliament and the nation , and for which he was expelled . The only difference is , ( for ...
... give it ) over the persons and freedom of posterity for ever , was of the same tyrannical unfounded kind which James attempted to set up over the parliament and the nation , and for which he was expelled . The only difference is , ( for ...
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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...