The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... wholly out of the course of moral nature . He undertook to prove , that it was generated in treachery , fraud , falsehood , hypocrisy , and unprovoked murder . - He offered to make out , that those who have led in that business had ...
... wholly out of the course of moral nature . He undertook to prove , that it was generated in treachery , fraud , falsehood , hypocrisy , and unprovoked murder . - He offered to make out , that those who have led in that business had ...
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... wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise , must be consdered but as a step preparatory to ...
... wholly overlooked , as considerations fit only for shallow and superficial minds . " - The words of Mr. Fox , or to that effect . 66 The subversion of a government , to deserve any praise , must be consdered but as a step preparatory to ...
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... wholly by popular representa- tion . It must be this or nothing . The French faction con- siders as a usurpation , as an atrocious violation of the inde- feasible rights of man , every other description of government . Take it or leave ...
... wholly by popular representa- tion . It must be this or nothing . The French faction con- siders as a usurpation , as an atrocious violation of the inde- feasible rights of man , every other description of government . Take it or leave ...
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... wholly disabled him from proceeding , attr conduct to a very different interpretation of hi They say , that through corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to ...
... wholly disabled him from proceeding , attr conduct to a very different interpretation of hi They say , that through corruption , or malice , o was acting his part in a plot to make his frien pass for a republican ; and thereby to ...
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... wholly on the Whig inte thought himself bound to tell to the electors , both be after his election , exactly what a representative they expect in him . " The distinguishing part of our constitution ( he sai liberty . To preserve that ...
... wholly on the Whig inte thought himself bound to tell to the electors , both be after his election , exactly what a representative they expect in him . " The distinguishing part of our constitution ( he sai liberty . To preserve 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...