The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page iii
... SHORT ADMINISTRATION xvii 67 263 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " 66 THE • THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS · 269 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * HE late Mr. Burke.
... SHORT ADMINISTRATION xvii 67 263 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " 66 THE • THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS · 269 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * HE late Mr. Burke.
Page vii
... Observations on the Conduct of the Minor- ity " in the Session of 1793 had been written and sent by Mr. Burke as a paper entirely and strictly confidential ; but it crept surreptitiously into the world , through the fraud and treachery ...
... Observations on the Conduct of the Minor- ity " in the Session of 1793 had been written and sent by Mr. Burke as a paper entirely and strictly confidential ; but it crept surreptitiously into the world , through the fraud and treachery ...
Page 5
... observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
... observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to ...
Page 17
... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
... observed before , the chronology of these re- mote times is extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a destruction of at least one million of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
Page 41
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance ...
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration advantage America American factors appear assert beauty body cause civil list colonies colors commerce consequences consideration considered constitution continued court crown dangerous debt degree disposition Duke of Choiseul duties effect England equal evil export faction family compact favor foreign Foundling Hospital France friends give Guadaloupe Havannah House of Commons idea imagination increase interest Jamaica kingdom least less light Lord Lord Bute manner manufactures means measures members of Parliament ment merchants mind ministers ministry nation nature never object observed operation opinion pain Parliament party passions peace establishment persons pleasure political present Priam principles produce proportion purpose reader reason regulations repeal revenue ruin scheme SECTION sense sort Spain species spirit Stamp Act sublime suppose taste taxes terror things tion trade treaty unoperative virtue whilst whole words