The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page viii
... Observations on the Conduct of the Minority in the Session of 1793 , ” had been written and sent by Mr. Burke as a paper entirely and strictly confidential ; but it crept surreptitiously into the world , through the fraud and treachery ...
... Observations on the Conduct of the Minority in the Session of 1793 , ” had been written and sent by Mr. Burke as a paper entirely and strictly confidential ; but it crept surreptitiously into the world , through the fraud and treachery ...
Page xvi
... observation , to his own private conviction . At length the reports of the different Committees , which had been appointed by the two Houses of Parliament , amply furnished him with evidence for this purpose . Accordingly he read and ...
... observation , to his own private conviction . At length the reports of the different Committees , which had been appointed by the two Houses of Parliament , amply furnished him with evidence for this purpose . Accordingly he read and ...
Page 8
... observe much more of his Lordship's character in such particulars of the following letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impe- tuous 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 following letter , than they are likely to find of that rapid torrent of an impe- tuous and overbearing eloquence , and the variety of rich imagery for which that ...
Page 19
... 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 any motives but pride , cruelty ...
... 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 any motives but pride , cruelty ...
Page 25
... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick , 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 Gallick , 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 ...
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