Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 страница |
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... kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of Pergamus and Macedon , without intermiffion worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power arising in the west rushed in upon them , and filenced their tumults ...
... kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of Pergamus and Macedon , without intermiffion worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power arising in the west rushed in upon them , and filenced their tumults ...
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... king of Armenia his ally by the greatness of his ruin . All who had con- nections with him shared the same fate . The merciless genius of SYLLA had its full scope ; and the streets of Athens were not the only oneswhich ran with blood ...
... king of Armenia his ally by the greatness of his ruin . All who had con- nections with him shared the same fate . The merciless genius of SYLLA had its full scope ; and the streets of Athens were not the only oneswhich ran with blood ...
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... kings of Babylon and Affyria ; but he confines himself to the decifive blow that termi- nated their existence as a nation , -a blow which is allowed to have cut off two millions of people . He then asks , if , in so inconfi- derable a ...
... kings of Babylon and Affyria ; but he confines himself to the decifive blow that termi- nated their existence as a nation , -a blow which is allowed to have cut off two millions of people . He then asks , if , in so inconfi- derable a ...
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... king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the leaft light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ALEXANDER had in his fury ...
... king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the leaft light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ALEXANDER had in his fury ...
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... and transferred it to other hands . Dr. LAU- RENCE , the reverend Dr. KING , Mr. INGLISH , and two or three fubordinate writers , have fince compiled the Annual Re- gifter . gifter . Some of them are , no doubt , 30 MEMOIRS OF THE.
... and transferred it to other hands . Dr. LAU- RENCE , the reverend Dr. KING , Mr. INGLISH , and two or three fubordinate writers , have fince compiled the Annual Re- gifter . gifter . Some of them are , no doubt , 30 MEMOIRS OF THE.
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Страница 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Страница 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Страница 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Страница 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Страница 142 - 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 liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Страница 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Страница 98 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Страница 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Страница 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.