The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY , IN A LET- TER ADDRESSED TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND LORD FITZWILLIAM 467 PREFACE TO THE ADDRESS OF M. BRISSOT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS 511 APPENDIX 529 ΑΝ ΑΡΡΕΑΙ FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
... OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY , IN A LET- TER ADDRESSED TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND LORD FITZWILLIAM 467 PREFACE TO THE ADDRESS OF M. BRISSOT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS 511 APPENDIX 529 ΑΝ ΑΡΡΕΑΙ FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS .
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... hostile attempt against our ancient laws , rights , an are now endeavouring to work the destruction of t of this kingdom , and the whole of its constitution 1 Lord Lansdowne . obliged , from the concessions he wished to be made.
... hostile attempt against our ancient laws , rights , an are now endeavouring to work the destruction of t of this kingdom , and the whole of its constitution 1 Lord Lansdowne . obliged , from the concessions he wished to be made.
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... Lords , no Commons , no India company to injure or support , no Indian empire to govern or oppress ? What re- lation had all or any of these , or any question which could arise between the prerogatives of the crown and the privi- leges ...
... Lords , no Commons , no India company to injure or support , no Indian empire to govern or oppress ? What re- lation had all or any of these , or any question which could arise between the prerogatives of the crown and the privi- leges ...
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... Lords , and Commons . - That the fundamental subversion of this ancient constitution , by one of its parts , having been attempted , and in effect accomplished , justified the Revolution . That it was justified only upon the necessity ...
... Lords , and Commons . - That the fundamental subversion of this ancient constitution , by one of its parts , having been attempted , and in effect accomplished , justified the Revolution . That it was justified only upon the necessity ...
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... Lords , and Commons ; though the executive power and administration be wholly in the crown . The terms of such a constitution do not only suppose , but express , an original contract between the crown and the people ; by which that ...
... Lords , and Commons ; though the executive power and administration be wholly in the crown . The terms of such a constitution do not only suppose , but express , an original contract between the crown and the people ; by which that ...
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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...