The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... PARLIAMENT , RELATIVE TO THE REFLECTIONS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE are some corrections in this edition , which tend to render the sense less obscure in one or two places . The order ...
... PARLIAMENT , RELATIVE TO THE REFLECTIONS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE are some corrections in this edition , which tend to render the sense less obscure in one or two places . The order ...
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... have maintained the pure doctrin they are bound together , and upon which they have invariably consequence is , that Mr. Burke retires from parliament . " Chronicle , May 12 , 1791 . the justice of it . Angry friendship is sometimes as.
... have maintained the pure doctrin they are bound together , and upon which they have invariably consequence is , that Mr. Burke retires from parliament . " Chronicle , May 12 , 1791 . the justice of it . Angry friendship is sometimes as.
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... parliament without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very solid and very brilliant tale tinguish the ministerial benches . The opposite ro sort of seminary of genius , and have brought forth s so great talents as never before ...
... parliament without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very solid and very brilliant tale tinguish the ministerial benches . The opposite ro sort of seminary of genius , and have brought forth s so great talents as never before ...
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... parliament , which , not- withstanding the purity of their intentions , had a tendency to encourage ill - designing men in their practices against our constitution . The members of this faction leave no doubt of the nature and the ...
... parliament , which , not- withstanding the purity of their intentions , had a tendency to encourage ill - designing men in their practices against our constitution . The members of this faction leave no doubt of the nature and the ...
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... parliament or out of parliament , professed or defended republican principles . " Argus , April 22nd , 1791 . Mr. Burke cannot answer for the truth , nor prove the falsehood , of the story given by the friends of the party in this paper ...
... parliament or out of parliament , professed or defended republican principles . " Argus , April 22nd , 1791 . Mr. Burke cannot answer for the truth , nor prove the falsehood , of the story given by the friends of the party in this paper ...
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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...