The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... piece , as a work of skill , been thought worthy of commendation , some doubt might have been entertained of the cause of his success . But the 4 AN APPEAL FROM matter stands exactly as he wishes B 2 THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
... piece , as a work of skill , been thought worthy of commendation , some doubt might have been entertained of the cause of his success . But the 4 AN APPEAL FROM matter stands exactly as he wishes B 2 THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
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Edmund Burke. 4 AN APPEAL FROM matter stands exactly as he wishes it . He is more have his fidelity in representation recognised by t of the people , than if he were to be ranked in point ( and higher he could not be ranked ) with thos ...
Edmund Burke. 4 AN APPEAL FROM matter stands exactly as he wishes it . He is more have his fidelity in representation recognised by t of the people , than if he were to be ranked in point ( and higher he could not be ranked ) with thos ...
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... standing by itself , is an open subject of political discussion , like all the other revolutions ( and there are many ) which have been attempted or accom- plished in our age . But if any considerable number of British subjects , taking ...
... standing by itself , is an open subject of political discussion , like all the other revolutions ( and there are many ) which have been attempted or accom- plished in our age . But if any considerable number of British subjects , taking ...
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... stands , is a tyranny far beyond any example that can be found in the civilized European world of our age ; that therefore the lovers of it must be lovers , not of liberty , but , if they really understand its nature , of the lowest and ...
... stands , is a tyranny far beyond any example that can be found in the civilized European world of our age ; that therefore the lovers of it must be lovers , not of liberty , but , if they really understand its nature , of the lowest and ...
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... stand , at best , as a mere declamation . I do not think Mr. Burke was wrong in the course he took . That which seemed to be recommended to him by Mr. Pitt , was rather to extol the English constitution , than to attack the French . I ...
... stand , at best , as a mere declamation . I do not think Mr. Burke was wrong in the course he took . That which seemed to be recommended to him by Mr. Pitt , was rather to extol the English constitution , than to attack the French . I ...
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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...