The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... ground for this appre- hension . But let us admit they had . What was there in the Quebec bill , rather than any other , which could subject him or them to that imputation ? Nothing in a discussion of the French constitution , which ...
... ground for this appre- hension . But let us admit they had . What was there in the Quebec bill , rather than any other , which could subject him or them to that imputation ? Nothing in a discussion of the French constitution , which ...
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... ground to Mr. Burke , and to Mr. Burke alone . But surely Mr. Fox is not a republican ; and what should hinder him , when such a discussion came on , from clearing himself unequivocally ( as his friends say he had done near a fortnight ...
... ground to Mr. Burke , and to Mr. Burke alone . But surely Mr. Fox is not a republican ; and what should hinder him , when such a discussion came on , from clearing himself unequivocally ( as his friends say he had done near a fortnight ...
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... ground for the charges which he was so easily provoked to make upon him . 66 The gentlemen of the party ( I include Mr. Fox ) have been kind enough to consider the dispute brought on by this business , and the consequent separation of ...
... ground for the charges which he was so easily provoked to make upon him . 66 The gentlemen of the party ( I include Mr. Fox ) have been kind enough to consider the dispute brought on by this business , and the consequent separation of ...
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... grounds of the one or of the other , or of both . All these he must support on grounds that are totally different , though prac- tically they may be , and happily with us they are , brought into one harmonious body . A man could not be ...
... grounds of the one or of the other , or of both . All these he must support on grounds that are totally different , though prac- tically they may be , and happily with us they are , brought into one harmonious body . A man could not be ...
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... ground for such a censure . He never abused publics . He has never professed himself a friend enemy to republics or to monarchies in the abstrac thought that the circumstances and habits of every c which it is always perilous and ...
... ground for such a censure . He never abused publics . He has never professed himself a friend enemy to republics or to monarchies in the abstrac thought that the circumstances and habits of every c which it is always perilous and ...
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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...