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... present one that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation and ruin , which seemed to shake the whole earth . The extent of this war which vexed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species ...
... present one that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devastation and ruin , which seemed to shake the whole earth . The extent of this war which vexed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species ...
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... present perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught ...
... present perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught ...
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... present experience ; and you will find that far the greater part of the quarrels between several nations had scarce any other occasion than that these nations were different combinations of people , and called by different names : to an ...
... present experience ; and you will find that far the greater part of the quarrels between several nations had scarce any other occasion than that these nations were different combinations of people , and called by different names : to an ...
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... present the name of republic , and it is one of the aristocratic form ; but it is well known that the little finger of this government is heavier than the loins of arbitrary power in most nations . The people are not only politically ...
... present the name of republic , and it is one of the aristocratic form ; but it is well known that the little finger of this government is heavier than the loins of arbitrary power in most nations . The people are not only politically ...
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... politicians , and for natural reason against all three . When the world is in a fitter temper than it is at present to hear truth , or when I shall be more indifferent about its temper , my thoughts may become 40 EDMUND BURKE.
... politicians , and for natural reason against all three . When the world is in a fitter temper than it is at present to hear truth , or when I shall be more indifferent about its temper , my thoughts may become 40 EDMUND BURKE.
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Página 144 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 207 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs* upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and...
Página 342 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 203 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Página 159 - I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Página 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 95 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Página 316 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Página 148 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Página 204 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.