The Life of Edmund BurkeG. Cawthorn; sold by Richardson, 1798 - 592 páginas |
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... writings recommend him to the Marquis of Rockingham , 52 . Character at entrance into public life , 52 to 54 - State of affairs at his outset , ib . - Pitt , 55. - Lord Bute , ibid . - Hatred of Scotchmen , 57. - Churchill , 58 ...
... writings recommend him to the Marquis of Rockingham , 52 . Character at entrance into public life , 52 to 54 - State of affairs at his outset , ib . - Pitt , 55. - Lord Bute , ibid . - Hatred of Scotchmen , 57. - Churchill , 58 ...
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... writings and eloquence afford the most extraordinary instance of powers of the first magnitude misapplied to the most hurtful purposes , and producing the most la- mentable effects . He repressed the increasing spirit of liberty , which ...
... writings and eloquence afford the most extraordinary instance of powers of the first magnitude misapplied to the most hurtful purposes , and producing the most la- mentable effects . He repressed the increasing spirit of liberty , which ...
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... writings , elo- quence , and influence , incidental excesses were identified with liberty itself . Emancipation from civil and ecclesiastical slavery was repro- bated , because resentment for long suffered and long felt oppression had ...
... writings , elo- quence , and influence , incidental excesses were identified with liberty itself . Emancipation from civil and ecclesiastical slavery was repro- bated , because resentment for long suffered and long felt oppression had ...
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... writings , eloquence , and wisdom , recalled Britain from the deluding errors of visionary theories to the salutary lessons of experience ; from the abstraction of metaphysics and the falsities of fanciful hypo- thesis to the ...
... writings , eloquence , and wisdom , recalled Britain from the deluding errors of visionary theories to the salutary lessons of experience ; from the abstraction of metaphysics and the falsities of fanciful hypo- thesis to the ...
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... writing a true life . The friend is apt to become a panegyrist , the enemy a satirist : the former to overcharge the good , and sink the bad ; the latter to overcharge the bad , and sink the good . Truth is either lost in the blaze of ...
... writing a true life . The friend is apt to become a panegyrist , the enemy a satirist : the former to overcharge the good , and sink the bad ; the latter to overcharge the bad , and sink the good . Truth is either lost in the blaze of ...
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