The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... seem here to be neces- sary . The " 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 ...
... seem here to be neces- sary . The " 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 ...
Page x
... seems to have finished only two or three detached fragments of the first letter . These being too imperfect to be printed alone , his friends inserted them in the memorial , where they seemed best to cohere . The memorial had been ...
... seems to have finished only two or three detached fragments of the first letter . These being too imperfect to be printed alone , his friends inserted them in the memorial , where they seemed best to cohere . The memorial had been ...
Page xviii
... seems to have been originally designed by Mr. Burke , which , how- ever , he afterwards abridged and altered , while the speech and the notes upon it remained as they were . The text and the documents that support it have throughout ...
... seems to have been originally designed by Mr. Burke , which , how- ever , he afterwards abridged and altered , while the speech and the notes upon it remained as they were . The text and the documents that support it have throughout ...
Page 15
... , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calculated , was ― their mutual destruction . All ancient history is dark A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calculated , was ― their mutual destruction . All ancient history is dark A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
Page 23
... seems to have been threatened . Such was that when the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns , poured into Gaul , Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every ...
... seems to have been threatened . Such was that when the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns , poured into Gaul , Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every ...
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