The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... possessed qualities fitted to perpetuate the memo offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the common weakness of wishes to owe no part of the indulgence ...
... possessed qualities fitted to perpetuate the memo offence . Oblivion would be the only means of his the reproaches of posterity . But , after receiving mon allowance due to the common weakness of wishes to owe no part of the indulgence ...
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... possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling of their blood , or imprudent to ...
... possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling of their blood , or imprudent to ...
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... possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less prevails in every mind . From ...
... possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less prevails in every mind . From ...
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... possession , in favour of wild and irrational expectations . What should hinder Mr. Burke , if he thought this temper likely , at one time or other , to prevail in our country , from exposing to a multitude , eager to game , the false ...
... possession , in favour of wild and irrational expectations . What should hinder Mr. Burke , if he thought this temper likely , at one time or other , to prevail in our country , from exposing to a multitude , eager to game , the false ...
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... possessed of such high and perfect au- thority . They had felt nothing from Lettres de Cachet . The Bastile could inspire no horrors into them . This was a treat for their betters . It was by art and impulse ; it was by the sinister use ...
... possessed of such high and perfect au- thority . They had felt nothing from Lettres de Cachet . The Bastile could inspire no horrors into them . This was a treat for their betters . It was by art and impulse ; it was by the sinister use ...
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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...