The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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Edmund Burke. BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . BURKE'S WORKS VOL . III . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE . VOL . III .
Edmund Burke. BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . BURKE'S WORKS VOL . III . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE . VOL . III .
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Edmund Burke. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE . VOL . III . POLITICAL MISCELLANIES . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . BURKE'S WORKS . VOL . III. 1887 . THE WORKS.
Edmund Burke. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE . VOL . III . POLITICAL MISCELLANIES . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . BURKE'S WORKS . VOL . III. 1887 . THE WORKS.
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... honourable Whigs . Mr. Burke entered into a connexion with that party , through that man , at an age far from raw and immature ; at those years when men are all they are ever likely to become ; when he was in the prime and vigour of his ...
... honourable Whigs . Mr. Burke entered into a connexion with that party , through that man , at an age far from raw and immature ; at those years when men are all they are ever likely to become ; when he was in the prime and vigour of his ...
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... honourable man and a sound Whig . He was not , as the Jacobites and discon- tented Whigs of his time have represented him , and as ill- informed people still represent him , a prodigal and corrupt minister . They charged him , in their ...
... honourable man and a sound Whig . He was not , as the Jacobites and discon- tented Whigs of his time have represented him , and as ill- informed people still represent him , a prodigal and corrupt minister . They charged him , in their ...
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... honourable as any that bad been obtained in arms during that reign of triumphs . Sir Joseph Jekyl , in his reply to Harcourt , and the other great men who conducted the cause for the Tory side , spoke in the following memorable terms ...
... honourable as any that bad been obtained in arms during that reign of triumphs . Sir Joseph Jekyl , in his reply to Harcourt , and the other great men who conducted the cause for the Tory side , spoke in the following memorable terms ...
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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...