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... AMERICAN WAR • 62 CHAPTER V. ECONOMICAL REFORM - BURKE IN OFFICE - FALL OF HIS PARTY 87 CHAPTER VI . BURKE AND HIS FRIENDS CHAPTER VII . THE NEW MINISTRY - WARREN HASTINGS - BURKE'S PUBLIC POSITION 106 123 PAGE CHAPTER VIII . THE FRENCH ...
... AMERICAN WAR • 62 CHAPTER V. ECONOMICAL REFORM - BURKE IN OFFICE - FALL OF HIS PARTY 87 CHAPTER VI . BURKE AND HIS FRIENDS CHAPTER VII . THE NEW MINISTRY - WARREN HASTINGS - BURKE'S PUBLIC POSITION 106 123 PAGE CHAPTER VIII . THE FRENCH ...
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... unwilling to waste thoughts on the less dignified parts of life . This is no unqualified virtue , and Burke might have escaped some 1 American Taxation . wearisome frets and embarrassments in his existence , if he 1. ] 9 EARLY LIFE .
... unwilling to waste thoughts on the less dignified parts of life . This is no unqualified virtue , and Burke might have escaped some 1 American Taxation . wearisome frets and embarrassments in his existence , if he 1. ] 9 EARLY LIFE .
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... America . " One of the hundred inscrutable rumours that hovered about Burke's name was , that he at one time actually did visit America . This was just as untrue as that he became a convert to the Catholic faith ; or that he was the ...
... America . " One of the hundred inscrutable rumours that hovered about Burke's name was , that he at one time actually did visit America . This was just as untrue as that he became a convert to the Catholic faith ; or that he was the ...
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... America . His Abridgment of the History of England comes down no further than to the reign of John . A much more important undertaking than his history of the past , was his design for a yearly chronicle of the present . The Annual ...
... America . His Abridgment of the History of England comes down no further than to the reign of John . A much more important undertaking than his history of the past , was his design for a yearly chronicle of the present . The Annual ...
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... American colonies would have been , if they had contained , besides the European settlers , more than twice their number of unenslaved negroes . After the suppression of the great rebellion of Tyrconnel by William of Orange , nearly the ...
... American colonies would have been , if they had contained , besides the European settlers , more than twice their number of unenslaved negroes . After the suppression of the great rebellion of Tyrconnel by William of Orange , nearly the ...
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Seite 199 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Seite 104 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Seite 75 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 75 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 104 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Seite 111 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Seite 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 85 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 146 - But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.
Seite 30 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...