The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... hands , is the care of our own time . With regard to futurity , we are to treat it like a ward . We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune , as to put the capital of his estate to any hazard . It is not worth our while to ...
... hands , is the care of our own time . With regard to futurity , we are to treat it like a ward . We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune , as to put the capital of his estate to any hazard . It is not worth our while to ...
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... hands . When they attempt without disguise , not to win it from our affections , but to force it from our fears , they show , in the character of their means of obtaining it , the use they would make of their do- minion . That writer is ...
... hands . When they attempt without disguise , not to win it from our affections , but to force it from our fears , they show , in the character of their means of obtaining it , the use they would make of their do- minion . That writer is ...
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... hands than one . And the uniform preservation of such a constitu- tion for so many ages , without any fundamental change , demonstrates to your Lordships the con- tinuance of the same contract . ” - " The consequences of such a frame of ...
... hands than one . And the uniform preservation of such a constitu- tion for so many ages , without any fundamental change , demonstrates to your Lordships the con- tinuance of the same contract . ” - " The consequences of such a frame of ...
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... hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several times . There are of this two famous instances in the know- ledge of the present age ; I mean that of the Restoration Restoration , and that of the Revolution ; in both and ...
... hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several times . There are of this two famous instances in the know- ledge of the present age ; I mean that of the Restoration Restoration , and that of the Revolution ; in both and ...
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... hands in which it is to be placed . Somewhere they are resolved to have it . Whether they desire it to be vested in the many or the few , depends with most men upon the chance which they imagine they themselves may have of partaking in ...
... hands in which it is to be placed . Somewhere they are resolved to have it . Whether they desire it to be vested in the many or the few , depends with most men upon the chance which they imagine they themselves may have of partaking 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...