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... OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE of the Present DiscontentS SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • SPEECHES AT MR . BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL , AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ...
... OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE of the Present DiscontentS SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • SPEECHES AT MR . BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL , AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ...
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... a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 11.
... a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the records of history , ( though , as we have observed before , the chronology of these remote times A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 11.
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Edmund Burke. have observed before , the chronology of these remote 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 ...
Edmund Burke. have observed before , the chronology of these remote 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 ...
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... observe little on the Ser- vile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
... observe little on the Ser- vile , the Social , the Gallic , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
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... 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 extravagance ...
... 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 extravagance ...
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