The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded. Political lettersG. Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... common line of policy , and had made advances where others in his situation would have waited for solicitation ; that the said unjust and dan- gerous projects did not take effect , because the Rajah of Berar refused to join or be ...
... common line of policy , and had made advances where others in his situation would have waited for solicitation ; that the said unjust and dan- gerous projects did not take effect , because the Rajah of Berar refused to join or be ...
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... common enemy , the English , and who only waited for a cessation of hostilities with us to return to their habitual and permanent enmity against each other . That the governor - general and council , in their letter of 31st August ...
... common enemy , the English , and who only waited for a cessation of hostilities with us to return to their habitual and permanent enmity against each other . That the governor - general and council , in their letter of 31st August ...
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... common - places which I suppose he keeps by him , in imita- tion of Cicero and other renowned declaimers of antiquity . Mr. Erskine supplied something , I allow , from the stores of his imagination , in metamorphosing the jovial toasts ...
... common - places which I suppose he keeps by him , in imita- tion of Cicero and other renowned declaimers of antiquity . Mr. Erskine supplied something , I allow , from the stores of his imagination , in metamorphosing the jovial toasts ...
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... common ecorum , listening neither to the secret admonitions of con- cience , nor to the public voice of fame , some of the members asely abandoning their post , and others continuing in it nly the more infamously to betray it , should ...
... common ecorum , listening neither to the secret admonitions of con- cience , nor to the public voice of fame , some of the members asely abandoning their post , and others continuing in it nly the more infamously to betray it , should ...
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... talent began to compare , in the partition of the common stock of public prosperity , the proportions of the dividends with the merits of the claimants . As usual , they found their 76 A LETTER TO WILLIAM ELLIOT , ESQ .
... talent began to compare , in the partition of the common stock of public prosperity , the proportions of the dividends with the merits of the claimants . As usual , they found their 76 A LETTER TO WILLIAM ELLIOT , ESQ .
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Page 541 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev.
Page 121 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like jne. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 541 - Vol. I. — Essays, Lectures, and Poems. Vol. II.— English Traits, Nature, and Conduct of Life. Vol. III.— Society and Solitude — Letters and Social Aims — Miscellaneous Papers (hitherto uncollected)— May-Day, &c. FOSTER'S (John) Life and Correspondence. Edit. by JE Ryland. Portrait. 2 vols. -Lectures at Broadmead Chapel. Edit. by JE Ryland. » vols. Critical Essays contributed to the
Page 181 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 545 - SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...