The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... true liberty . In respect of Ire- land his only thought was to unite in prosperity and affection the people of that country to the empire , while from the Roman Catholics he strove to remove a Speech at Bristol previous to the Election ...
... true liberty . In respect of Ire- land his only thought was to unite in prosperity and affection the people of that country to the empire , while from the Roman Catholics he strove to remove a Speech at Bristol previous to the Election ...
Page xiv
... true conception of the style of Burke's eloquence . As an orator he stands pre - eminent amongst the greatest , and , in the opinion of Lord Byron , alone with Lord Chatham approached the standard of perfection . No man was heard more ...
... true conception of the style of Burke's eloquence . As an orator he stands pre - eminent amongst the greatest , and , in the opinion of Lord Byron , alone with Lord Chatham approached the standard of perfection . No man was heard more ...
Page 8
... true nature of the American war , to the true nature of all its successes and all its failures . In that public storm , too , I had my private feelings . I had seen blown down and prostrate on the ground several of those houses to whom ...
... true nature of the American war , to the true nature of all its successes and all its failures . In that public storm , too , I had my private feelings . I had seen blown down and prostrate on the ground several of those houses to whom ...
Page 9
... true , unvarnished , undisguised state of the affair . You will judge of it . This is the only one of the charges in which I am personally concerned . As to the other matters objected against me , which in their turn I shall mention to ...
... true , unvarnished , undisguised state of the affair . You will judge of it . This is the only one of the charges in which I am personally concerned . As to the other matters objected against me , which in their turn I shall mention to ...
Page 13
... true Englishman , I felt to the quick for the disgrace of England . I am a man , I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs , in the fall of the first power in the world . I am a To read what was approaching in Ireland , in the ...
... true Englishman , I felt to the quick for the disgrace of England . I am a man , I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs , in the fall of the first power in the world . I am a To read what was approaching in Ireland , in the ...
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