The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... whole tacit acquiescence in their declarations , under a na not always an improper , dislike of showing a differ those who lead their party . I will not deny , that this conduct in parties is defensible ; but within w the practice is to ...
... whole tacit acquiescence in their declarations , under a na not always an improper , dislike of showing a differ those who lead their party . I will not deny , that this conduct in parties is defensible ; but within w the practice is to ...
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... whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither in the whole , nor in any of the parts , were they directly , or by any implication , in- volved . The author was known indeed to have been warmly strenuously , and ...
... whole , and in all the parts of his book ; because neither in the whole , nor in any of the parts , were they directly , or by any implication , in- volved . The author was known indeed to have been warmly strenuously , and ...
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... whole of the party he has high respect . Upon indeed of the composition of all parties , he finds gre faction . It is , that in leaving the service of his cou leaves parliament without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very ...
... whole of the party he has high respect . Upon indeed of the composition of all parties , he finds gre faction . It is , that in leaving the service of his cou leaves parliament without all comparison richer in than he found it . Very ...
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... whole constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of ...
... whole constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its laws , civil and ecclesiastical , and with them of the whole system of its manners , in favour of the new constitution , and of ...
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... whole orders and classes of men , extending itself di- rectly , or in its nearest consequences , to at least a million of our kind , and to at least the temporary wretchedness of a whole community , I do not deny to be in some sort ...
... whole orders and classes of men , extending itself di- rectly , or in its nearest consequences , to at least a million of our kind , and to at least the temporary wretchedness of a whole community , I do not deny to be in some sort ...
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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...