The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one stroke , a fourth of his people ? Or has the cruelty of that series of sanguine tyrants , the ...
... neck ; could the tyrant Caligula himself have done , nay , he could scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one stroke , a fourth of his people ? Or has the cruelty of that series of sanguine tyrants , the ...
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... necks to the yoke of political and theological slavery . We have re- nounced the prerogative of man , and it is no won- der that we should be treated like beasts . But our misery is much greater than theirs , as the crime we commit in ...
... necks to the yoke of political and theological slavery . We have re- nounced the prerogative of man , and it is no won- der that we should be treated like beasts . But our misery is much greater than theirs , as the crime we commit in ...
Page 109
... piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things , but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . ON TASTE . 109.
... piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things , but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . ON TASTE . 109.
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Edmund Burke. not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . The sultan on this occasion , though his observa- tion was very just , discovered no more natural taste than the painter who executed this piece , or than a thousand European ...
Edmund Burke. not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . The sultan on this occasion , though his observa- tion was very just , discovered no more natural taste than the painter who executed this piece , or than a thousand European ...
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... neck is cloth- ed with thunder , the glory of whose nostrils is terrible , who swalloweth the ground with fierce- ness andrage , neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet ? In this description , the useful cha- racter of the ...
... neck is cloth- ed with thunder , the glory of whose nostrils is terrible , who swalloweth the ground with fierce- ness andrage , neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet ? In this description , the useful cha- racter of the ...
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