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" France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotic anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like, adulterously lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These... "
The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 21
by Edmund Burke - 1803
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A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in theneft of every neighbouring State. Thefe pbfcene harpies, who deck themfelves, in I know not what divine...upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, un^ ravaged, or unpolluted with the ilime of their filthy ofFal *. * Triftius baud illis monftrum,...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...prodigious things," cuckoo-like, adulteroully lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the neft of every neighbouring ftate. Thefe obfcene harpies,...and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpblluted with the flime of their filthy offal*. If his Grace (Bedford) ean contemplate the refult...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8

Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 446 pages
...prodigious things," cuckoolike, adulteroufly lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the neft of every neighbouring ftate. Thefe obfcene harpies,...attributes, but who in reality are foul and ravenous birds ef prey (both mothers and daughters) flutter over our heads, and foufe down upon our tables, and leave...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves, in I know not what divine attributes, but who in reality...mothers and daughters) flutter over our heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves, in I know not what divine attributes, but who in reality...mothers and daughters) flutter over our heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing mirent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime...
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The Meteor; or, General censor

1817 - 398 pages
...neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves, in I know not what divine attributes, hut who in reality are foul and ravenous birds of prey...mothers and daughters) flutter over our heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unriflcd, unravaged, or unpolluted, with the...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves, in I know not what divine attributes, but who in reality...mothers and daughters, flutter over our heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves, " E 6 > souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unnfled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. These obscene harpies, who deck themselves in I know not what divine attributes, but / who in...prey, (both mothers and daughters,) flutter over our f heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave "T nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted...
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