The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... things which touch h nearly . To abandon them would argue , not diffiden abilities , but treachery to his cause . Had his wo recognised as a pattern for dexterous argument and ful eloquence , yet if it tended to establish maxims , spire ...
... things which touch h nearly . To abandon them would argue , not diffiden abilities , but treachery to his cause . Had his wo recognised as a pattern for dexterous argument and ful eloquence , yet if it tended to establish maxims , spire ...
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... things in France did at all deserve the respectable name of a re- public : he had therefore no comparison between ... thing , wholly out of the course of moral nature . He undertook to prove , that it was generated in treachery , fraud ...
... things in France did at all deserve the respectable name of a re- public : he had therefore no comparison between ... thing , wholly out of the course of moral nature . He undertook to prove , that it was generated in treachery , fraud ...
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... thing good in itself , without any sort of reference to the antecedent state of things , or to consequences which result from the change ; without any consideration whether under its ancient rule a country was to a considerable degree ...
... thing good in itself , without any sort of reference to the antecedent state of things , or to consequences which result from the change ; without any consideration whether under its ancient rule a country was to a considerable degree ...
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... things before our eyes , our feelings contradict our theories ; and when this is the case , the feelings are true ... thing parted with , and the value of the thing received in exchange . The burthen of proof lies heavily on those who ...
... things before our eyes , our feelings contradict our theories ; and when this is the case , the feelings are true ... thing parted with , and the value of the thing received in exchange . The burthen of proof lies heavily on those who ...
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... things are soon forgot upon occasions in which all men are so apt to forget themselves . Deliberate injuries to a degree must be remembered , because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return . I am ...
... things are soon forgot upon occasions in which all men are so apt to forget themselves . Deliberate injuries to a degree must be remembered , because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return . I am ...
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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...