THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... History ; " and reaches from the earliest period down to the conclusion of the reign of King John . It is written with much depth of an- tiquarian research , directed by the mind of an intelligent statesman . This alone , as far as can ...
... History ; " and reaches from the earliest period down to the conclusion of the reign of King John . It is written with much depth of an- tiquarian research , directed by the mind of an intelligent statesman . This alone , as far as can ...
Page xxi
... history of his life is necef- farily and intimately connected ; as indeed it also is , much more than is generally known , with the state of literature and the elegant arts . Such a fubject of biography cannot be dismissed with a flight ...
... history of his life is necef- farily and intimately connected ; as indeed it also is , much more than is generally known , with the state of literature and the elegant arts . Such a fubject of biography cannot be dismissed with a flight ...
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... history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guic- ciardini himself . The glaring ...
... history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guic- ciardini himself . The glaring ...
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... history is dark and uncertain . One thing how- ever is clear . There were conquerors , and con- quests in those days ; and confequently , all that devastation , by which they are formed , and all that oppreffion by which they are ...
... history is dark and uncertain . One thing how- ever is clear . There were conquerors , and con- quests in those days ; and confequently , all that devastation , by which they are formed , and all that oppreffion by which they are ...
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... history , ( though , as we have observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one million of his species , unpro- voked but by his ambition , without ...
... history , ( though , as we have observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one million of his species , unpro- voked but by his ambition , without ...
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