The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Volume 1H. G. Bohn., 1841 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... never withdrew him from his studies . Few men , indeed , who ventured within that magic circle where wit and genius ... Never did man need more than he did a sanctuary and a refuge in the quiet of domestic love from the incessant ...
... never withdrew him from his studies . Few men , indeed , who ventured within that magic circle where wit and genius ... Never did man need more than he did a sanctuary and a refuge in the quiet of domestic love from the incessant ...
Page viii
... never be worth while to reply to it : the fools who can think there is any degradation in receiving honest ... never to be realized , and for whom , in the excess of parental love , -that only passion that can never be allied with envy ...
... never be worth while to reply to it : the fools who can think there is any degradation in receiving honest ... never to be realized , and for whom , in the excess of parental love , -that only passion that can never be allied with envy ...
Page x
... never before could prevail upon myself to use to any man . " The occasion of our difference was not any act whatsoever on my part ; it was entirely on his , by a voluntary but most insolent and intolerable demand , amounting to no less ...
... never before could prevail upon myself to use to any man . " The occasion of our difference was not any act whatsoever on my part ; it was entirely on his , by a voluntary but most insolent and intolerable demand , amounting to no less ...
Page xxvii
... never , so far as we know , been referred to ; yet as coming from one at such an immeasurable distance from political strife , from one whose very nature was gentleness , and who , above all , felt no inconsiderable sym- pathy with ...
... never , so far as we know , been referred to ; yet as coming from one at such an immeasurable distance from political strife , from one whose very nature was gentleness , and who , above all , felt no inconsiderable sym- pathy with ...
Page xxviii
... never would , recover from the shock it had occasioned . " The following is the testimony of a political opponent . " Never were the powers of that wonderful man displayed to such advantage as on this occasion ; and he astonished even ...
... never would , recover from the shock it had occasioned . " The following is the testimony of a political opponent . " Never were the powers of that wonderful man displayed to such advantage as on this occasion ; and he astonished even ...
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