The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to prevent th intentions of his sovereign from taking effect , wh Er ent her US t- time had begun to disclose.
... corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to prevent th intentions of his sovereign from taking effect , wh Er ent her US t- time had begun to disclose.
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... sovereign , which form the keystone that binds together the noble and well - constructed arch of our empire and our constitution . A constitution made up of balanced powers , must ever be a critical thing . As such I mean to touch that ...
... sovereign , which form the keystone that binds together the noble and well - constructed arch of our empire and our constitution . A constitution made up of balanced powers , must ever be a critical thing . As such I mean to touch that ...
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... sovereign . That which the law wisely silent in , the Commons desire to be silent in will they put any case of a justifiable resistance , the Revolution only ; and they persuade themselv doing right to that resistance will be so far ...
... sovereign . That which the law wisely silent in , the Commons desire to be silent in will they put any case of a justifiable resistance , the Revolution only ; and they persuade themselv doing right to that resistance will be so far ...
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... sovereign power as declared in the act of Queen Anne . That is , that the kings or queens of the realm , with the consent of parliament , are competent to regulate and to settle the succession of the crown . This power is , and ever was ...
... sovereign power as declared in the act of Queen Anne . That is , that the kings or queens of the realm , with the consent of parliament , are competent to regulate and to settle the succession of the crown . This power is , and ever was ...
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... sovereign by a judi- ciary sentence . For it can never be inferred from the lawful- ness of resistance , at a time when a total subversion of the government both in church and state was intended , that a peo- ple may take up arms , and ...
... sovereign by a judi- ciary sentence . For it can never be inferred from the lawful- ness of resistance , at a time when a total subversion of the government both in church and state was intended , that a peo- ple may take up arms , and ...
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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...