The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... havock of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons ...
... havock of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons ...
Page 25
... havock and murder would disgust your Lordship as much as it would me ; and I confess I already feel my eyes ake by keeping them so long intent on so bloody a prospect . I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick ...
... havock and murder would disgust your Lordship as much as it would me ; and I confess I already feel my eyes ake by keeping them so long intent on so bloody a prospect . I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick ...
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... havock made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tygers , pan- thers , ounces , leopards , hyenas , rhinoceroses , ele- phants , bears , and wolves , upon their several species , since the beginning of the ...
... havock made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tygers , pan- thers , ounces , leopards , hyenas , rhinoceroses , ele- phants , bears , and wolves , upon their several species , since the beginning of the ...
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