The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but ...
... millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but ...
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... millions of souls on her part ; and it is not unreasonable to judge that the country which was the seat of war , must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only half ...
... millions of souls on her part ; and it is not unreasonable to judge that the country which was the seat of war , must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only half ...
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... . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander depopulated that part of the world of at least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and before C3 The NATURAL SOCIETY . 21.
... . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander depopulated that part of the world of at least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and before C3 The NATURAL SOCIETY . 21.
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... millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 3 lican and tyrannical parties , and the possession ...
... millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the repub- lican 3 lican and tyrannical parties , and the possession ...
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... millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps ...
... millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars , and the consequences of them , which wasted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power prevailed in that part of Italy . They are perhaps ...
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