The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... ministerial benches . The opposite ro sort of seminary of genius , and have brought forth s so great talents as never before ( amongst us at leas appeared together . If their owners are disposed their country , ( he trusts they are ...
... ministerial benches . The opposite ro sort of seminary of genius , and have brought forth s so great talents as never before ( amongst us at leas appeared together . If their owners are disposed their country , ( he trusts they are ...
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... ministerial prudence , or of that prudence which ought to guide a man perhaps on the eve of being minister , to restrain the author of the Reflections . He is in no office under the crown ; he is not the organ of any party . The ...
... ministerial prudence , or of that prudence which ought to guide a man perhaps on the eve of being minister , to restrain the author of the Reflections . He is in no office under the crown ; he is not the organ of any party . The ...
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... ministerial favour . It was thought to be the forerunner of the dismission of Mr. Pitt , and every engine was set at work for the purpose of preventing such an event . The principal engine employed on this occasion was CALUMNY . It was ...
... ministerial favour . It was thought to be the forerunner of the dismission of Mr. Pitt , and every engine was set at work for the purpose of preventing such an event . The principal engine employed on this occasion was CALUMNY . It was ...
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... ministers , and to state that opinion to the crown ? What had this discussion to do with Mr. Burke's ideas in 1784 , of the ill consequences which must in the end arise to the crown from setting up the commons at large as an opposite ...
... ministers , and to state that opinion to the crown ? What had this discussion to do with Mr. Burke's ideas in 1784 , of the ill consequences which must in the end arise to the crown from setting up the commons at large as an opposite ...
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... minister agers for the Commons were persons who ha them , an active share in the Revolution . Mos had seen it at an age capable of reflection . event , and all the discussions which led to it , ar it , were then alive in the memory and ...
... minister agers for the Commons were persons who ha them , an active share in the Revolution . Mos had seen it at an age capable of reflection . event , and all the discussions which led to it , ar it , were then alive in the memory 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...