The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 42
... crown this masterpiece of violence and tyranny , they actu- ally sold every man of the five thousand as slaves in the public market . Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than ...
... crown this masterpiece of violence and tyranny , they actu- ally sold every man of the five thousand as slaves in the public market . Observe , my lord , that the five thousand we here speak of were cut off from a body of no more than ...
Page 48
... crown , or how far the privileges of the subject are likely to be extended or restricted by it . And these questions are constantly resolved , without any consideration of the merits of the cause , merely as the parties who uphold these ...
... crown , or how far the privileges of the subject are likely to be extended or restricted by it . And these questions are constantly resolved , without any consideration of the merits of the cause , merely as the parties who uphold these ...
Page 133
... crown had on . " In this description all is dark , uncertain , confused , terrible , and sublime to the last degree . SECTION IV . OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCU- RITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS . It is one thing to make ...
... crown had on . " In this description all is dark , uncertain , confused , terrible , and sublime to the last degree . SECTION IV . OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCU- RITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS . It is one thing to make ...
Page 298
... crowns , as if they had been different ministers of the same monarch . The Spanish minister received his instructions , not from Madrid , but from Versailles . This was not hid from our ministers at home ; 298 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE ...
... crowns , as if they had been different ministers of the same monarch . The Spanish minister received his instructions , not from Madrid , but from Versailles . This was not hid from our ministers at home ; 298 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE ...
Page 336
... crown never so much extended over the great ; but the great without influence over the lower sort . Parliament losing its reverence with the people . The voice of the multitude set up against the sense of the legislature ; a people ...
... crown never so much extended over the great ; but the great without influence over the lower sort . Parliament losing its reverence with the people . The voice of the multitude set up against the sense of the legislature ; a people ...
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