The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... Protestantism ; that it was not set- tled upon elective principles , in any sense of the word elective , or under any ... Protestant line , drawn from James the First , as the stock of inheritance . " Necessity of settling the right of ...
... Protestantism ; that it was not set- tled upon elective principles , in any sense of the word elective , or under any ... Protestant line , drawn from James the First , as the stock of inheritance . " Necessity of settling the right of ...
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... Protestant line . " * * I mean now to show that the Whigs , ( if Sir Joseph Jekyl was one , and if he spoke in conformity to the sense of the 62 AN APPEAL FROM Whig House of Commons and the THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 61.
... Protestant line . " * * I mean now to show that the Whigs , ( if Sir Joseph Jekyl was one , and if he spoke in conformity to the sense of the 62 AN APPEAL FROM Whig House of Commons and the THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS . 61.
Page 283
... Protestants of Ireland , and their aptitude to admit in time of some part of that equality , without which you never can be FELLOW - CITIZENS.- Of all this I am wholly ignorant . All my correspondence with men of public importance in ...
... Protestants of Ireland , and their aptitude to admit in time of some part of that equality , without which you never can be FELLOW - CITIZENS.- Of all this I am wholly ignorant . All my correspondence with men of public importance in ...
Page 286
... Protestant dissenters . But that is a chap- ter by itself . I am sure I wish well to that church , and think its ministers among the very best citizens of your country . However , such as it is , a great walk in life is for- bidden ...
... Protestant dissenters . But that is a chap- ter by itself . I am sure I wish well to that church , and think its ministers among the very best citizens of your country . However , such as it is , a great walk in life is for- bidden ...
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... Protestants , and not much better esteemed or treated even by the few persons of fortune of their own per- suasion ; and contracting the habits and ways of thinking of the poor and uneducated , among whom they were obliged to live , in ...
... Protestants , and not much better esteemed or treated even by the few persons of fortune of their own per- suasion ; and contracting the habits and ways of thinking of the poor and uneducated , among whom they were obliged to live , in ...
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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...