The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... principles of that Revolution with their own opinions . The French Revolution is no part of their original contract ... principle could bind the author not to express his sentiments strongly against such a faction . On the contrary , he ...
... principles of that Revolution with their own opinions . The French Revolution is no part of their original contract ... principle could bind the author not to express his sentiments strongly against such a faction . On the contrary , he ...
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... principles of France , propagated from that grand school of every disorder and every vice . He was prepared to show the madness of their declaration of the pretended rights of man ; the childish futility of some of their maxims ; the ...
... principles of France , propagated from that grand school of every disorder and every vice . He was prepared to show the madness of their declaration of the pretended rights of man ; the childish futility of some of their maxims ; the ...
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Edmund Burke. were in contradiction to his former principles , and inconsist- ent with the general tenor of his public conduct ? They , who have made eloquent panegyrics on the French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very ...
Edmund Burke. were in contradiction to his former principles , and inconsist- ent with the general tenor of his public conduct ? They , who have made eloquent panegyrics on the French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very ...
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... principles and opinions , which have hitherto guided and contained the world , and to force them into a conformity to their views and actions . His mind is made to better things . That a man should rejoice and triumph in the destruction ...
... principles and opinions , which have hitherto guided and contained the world , and to force them into a conformity to their views and actions . His mind is made to better things . That a man should rejoice and triumph in the destruction ...
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... principles . It must be shown that it is right , though imperfect ; that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement , but that it contains in it a prin- ciple tending to its melioration . Before they attempt to show this ...
... principles . It must be shown that it is right , though imperfect ; that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement , but that it contains in it a prin- ciple tending to its melioration . Before they attempt to show this ...
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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...