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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.
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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...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellanies Bohn's standard library Volume 3 of The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | G. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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