The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page ix
... hands of a party of reaction and privilege . There came back also to idolize him once more one who had been alienated by his prosecution of Warren Hastings- Frances Burney , authoress of Evelina . Edward Gibbon , the greatest of ...
... hands of a party of reaction and privilege . There came back also to idolize him once more one who had been alienated by his prosecution of Warren Hastings- Frances Burney , authoress of Evelina . Edward Gibbon , the greatest of ...
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... hands of the booksellers , to the great loss of an useful body of men . Whether the books , so charitably circulated , were ever as charitably read , is more than I know . Possibly several of them have been exported to France ; and ...
... hands of the booksellers , to the great loss of an useful body of men . Whether the books , so charitably circulated , were ever as charitably read , is more than I know . Possibly several of them have been exported to France ; and ...
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... hand which distributes the dole , may have made them the instruments of their pious designs . Whatever I may have reason to suspect concerning private management , I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty but what is public . For one ...
... hand which distributes the dole , may have made them the instruments of their pious designs . Whatever I may have reason to suspect concerning private management , I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty but what is public . For one ...
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... mouths , and a two - edged sword in their hands , were to execute judgment on the heathen , and punishments upon the people ; to bind their kings with chains , and their nobles with fetters of iron . Few harangues from.
... mouths , and a two - edged sword in their hands , were to execute judgment on the heathen , and punishments upon the people ; to bind their kings with chains , and their nobles with fetters of iron . Few harangues from.
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... hands ; the brave and bold from the love of honourable danger in a generous cause : but , with or without right , a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good . The third head of right , asserted by the ...
... hands ; the brave and bold from the love of honourable danger in a generous cause : but , with or without right , a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good . The third head of right , asserted by the ...
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