The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... party in which Mr. Burke ha acted , in passing upon him the sentence of retireme done nothing more than to confirm the sentence had long before passed upon himself . When tha was choice , which the tribunal of his peers inflict as ment ...
... party in which Mr. Burke ha acted , in passing upon him the sentence of retireme done nothing more than to confirm the sentence had long before passed upon himself . When tha was choice , which the tribunal of his peers inflict as ment ...
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... party , have passed sentence on Mr. Burke's book , in the light of literary criti- cism , are judges above all challenge . He did not indeed flatter himself , that as a writer he could claim the approba- tion of men whose talents , in ...
... party , have passed sentence on Mr. Burke's book , in the light of literary criti- cism , are judges above all challenge . He did not indeed flatter himself , that as a writer he could claim the approba- tion of men whose talents , in ...
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... party before sent , and , if ever he can reach it , before the comin ation . The author , several months previous to his pu well knew , that two gentlemen , both of them pos the most distinguished abilities , and of a most de thority in ...
... party before sent , and , if ever he can reach it , before the comin ation . The author , several months previous to his pu well knew , that two gentlemen , both of them pos the most distinguished abilities , and of a most de thority in ...
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... party . It proceeded from the mouth of him who must be regarded as its authentic organ . In a dis- cussion which continued for two days , no one gentleman of the opposition interposed a negative , or even a doubt , in favour of him or ...
... party . It proceeded from the mouth of him who must be regarded as its authentic organ . In a dis- cussion which continued for two days , no one gentleman of the opposition interposed a negative , or even a doubt , in favour of him or ...
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... 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 without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very solid and very ...
... 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 without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very solid and very ...
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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...