The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeG. Bell, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and ...
... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and ...
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... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
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... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a ...
... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a ...
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... less miserable manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have ...
... less miserable manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have ...
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... less inclined to draw consequences than your Lordship . I now come to show , that political society is justly charge- able with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the ...
... less inclined to draw consequences than your Lordship . I now come to show , that political society is justly charge- able with much the greatest part of this destruction of the species . To give the fairest play to every side of the ...
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