The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which establishes the Roman empire , and forms the grand catastrophe of the ancient drama . This empire ...
... Italy . They are perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which establishes the Roman empire , and forms the grand catastrophe of the ancient drama . This empire ...
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... Italy about this time , added the total destruction of their own armies to those of the ancient inhabi tants . In short , it were hardly possible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that ensued soon ...
... Italy about this time , added the total destruction of their own armies to those of the ancient inhabi tants . In short , it were hardly possible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that ensued soon ...
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... Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carry- ing destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid desarts every way behind them . Vastum ubique silentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo exploratoribus obvius ...
... Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carry- ing destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid desarts every way behind them . Vastum ubique silentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo exploratoribus obvius ...
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... Italian , much more a Turk , or a Tartar , raises of course ideas of hatred , and contempt . If you would inspire this compa- triot of ours with pity , or regard , for one of these , would you not hide that distinction ? You would not ...
... Italian , much more a Turk , or a Tartar , raises of course ideas of hatred , and contempt . If you would inspire this compa- triot of ours with pity , or regard , for one of these , would you not hide that distinction ? You would not ...
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... little to every thing we love : the French and Italians make use of these affec- tionate diminutives even more than we . In the animal creation , out of our own species , it animal 236 ON THE SUBLIME Beautiful Objects small.
... little to every thing we love : the French and Italians make use of these affec- tionate diminutives even more than we . In the animal creation , out of our own species , it animal 236 ON THE SUBLIME Beautiful Objects small.
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