The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page xx
... History ; " and reaches from the earliest period down to the conclusion of the reign of King John . It is written with much depth of antiquarian research , direct- ed by the mind of an intelligent statesman . This alone , as far as can ...
... History ; " and reaches from the earliest period down to the conclusion of the reign of King John . It is written with much depth of antiquarian research , direct- ed by the mind of an intelligent statesman . This alone , as far as can ...
Page xxi
... history of his life is necessarily and intimately connected ; as indeed it also is , much more than is gene- rally known , with the state of literature and the elegant arts . Such asubject of biography cannot be dismissed with a slight ...
... history of his life is necessarily and intimately connected ; as indeed it also is , much more than is gene- rally known , with the state of literature and the elegant arts . Such asubject of biography cannot be dismissed with a slight ...
Page 16
... history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guic- ciardini himself . The glaring ...
... history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guic- ciardini himself . The glaring ...
Page 19
... history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a de- struction of at least one million of his species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without ...
... history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a de- struction of at least one million of his species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without ...
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... history . One is astonished how such a small spot could furnish men sufficient to sacrifice to the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres , or two or three more villages : yet to see the acrimony and bitterness ...
... history . One is astonished how such a small spot could furnish men sufficient to sacrifice to the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres , or two or three more villages : yet to see the acrimony and bitterness ...
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