Annual Register, Band 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... directed to proper objects , yet , that in general it feemed ra- ther to degenerate into a paffion for innovation , than to be the cool refult of a comprehenfive knowledge and due confideration of things , guided by prudent and ...
... directed to proper objects , yet , that in general it feemed ra- ther to degenerate into a paffion for innovation , than to be the cool refult of a comprehenfive knowledge and due confideration of things , guided by prudent and ...
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... directed to other objects ; that the emperor and fhe were mutually bound , in the ftrictest and dearest ties of alliance , friendship , and blood ; and , even admitting the poffibility of any change in this ftate of connections , his ...
... directed to other objects ; that the emperor and fhe were mutually bound , in the ftrictest and dearest ties of alliance , friendship , and blood ; and , even admitting the poffibility of any change in this ftate of connections , his ...
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... directed its operation , a few months after , to the relief of the peafantry in Auftrian Poland . Thefe were glorious and lafting monuments of humanity and wif dom ; the merits of which , and their benefits to mankind , are too confpi ...
... directed its operation , a few months after , to the relief of the peafantry in Auftrian Poland . Thefe were glorious and lafting monuments of humanity and wif dom ; the merits of which , and their benefits to mankind , are too confpi ...
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... directed to the only other maritime nook and ex- tremity of his dominions , which lies fequeftered in the bottom of the Adriatic . The ancient city of Triefle , after having been , for feveral hundred years , a neft of pirates , and ...
... directed to the only other maritime nook and ex- tremity of his dominions , which lies fequeftered in the bottom of the Adriatic . The ancient city of Triefle , after having been , for feveral hundred years , a neft of pirates , and ...
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... directed all their hopes to the Porte , as their laft refuge . At the fame time , the court of Petersburgh highly resented the conduct of the Porte , to which it at- tributed all the troubles of the Cri- mea . It charged them with fo ...
... directed all their hopes to the Porte , as their laft refuge . At the fame time , the court of Petersburgh highly resented the conduct of the Porte , to which it at- tributed all the troubles of the Cri- mea . It charged them with fo ...
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Seite 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
Seite 15 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Seite 56 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Seite 16 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Seite 183 - It is therefore not from treasuries and mines, but from the food of your unpaid armies, from the blood withheld from the veins, and whipt out of the backs of the most miserable of men, that we are to pamper extortion, usury, and peculation, under the false names of debtors and creditors of state.
Seite 186 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Seite 115 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Seite 115 - This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right, and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the real purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Seite 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.