The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... defensible ; but within w the practice is to be circumscribed , and with what e the doctrine which supports it is to be received , it present purpose to define . The present question ha to do with their motives ; it only regards the.
... defensible ; but within w the practice is to be circumscribed , and with what e the doctrine which supports it is to be received , it present purpose to define . The present question ha to do with their motives ; it only regards the.
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Edmund Burke. to do with their motives ; it only regards the public expres- sion of their sentiments . The author is ... regard to them can never vary , AN APPEAL FROM without subjecting him to the just indignation THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
Edmund Burke. to do with their motives ; it only regards the public expres- sion of their sentiments . The author is ... regard to them can never vary , AN APPEAL FROM without subjecting him to the just indignation THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
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... regard , and of personal admiration , rendered the A the Reflections extremely cautious , lest the slightes cion should arise of his having undertaken to exp sentiments even of a single man of that descriptio words at the outset of his ...
... regard , and of personal admiration , rendered the A the Reflections extremely cautious , lest the slightes cion should arise of his having undertaken to exp sentiments even of a single man of that descriptio words at the outset of his ...
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... regard to futurity , we are to treat it like a ward . We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune , as to put the capital of his estate to any hazard . It is not worth our while to discuss , like sophisters , whe- ther , in ...
... regard to futurity , we are to treat it like a ward . We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune , as to put the capital of his estate to any hazard . It is not worth our while to discuss , like sophisters , whe- ther , in ...
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... regard the language of those libels . But however his sensi- bility might be affected by such abuse , it would in him have been thought a most ridiculous reason for shutting up the mouths of Mr. Fox or Mr. Sheridan , so as to prevent ...
... regard the language of those libels . But however his sensi- bility might be affected by such abuse , it would in him have been thought a most ridiculous reason for shutting up the mouths of Mr. Fox or Mr. Sheridan , so as to prevent ...
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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...