The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 7
... observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
... observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impetuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
Page 17
... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
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... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
Page 41
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance ...
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance ...
Page 42
... Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the ... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of 42 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the ... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of 42 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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