The Early Life, Correspondence and Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, LL. D.: With a Transcript of the Minute Book of the Debating "Club" Founded by Him in the Trinity College, Dublin |
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... speak of him as an officer of outstanding gallantry and devotion to duty , fearless , cool - headed , and a thinker , who had developed into a really fine soldier , worshipped by all his young officers and idolised by his men , of great ...
... speak of him as an officer of outstanding gallantry and devotion to duty , fearless , cool - headed , and a thinker , who had developed into a really fine soldier , worshipped by all his young officers and idolised by his men , of great ...
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... speaking on 20th June , 1780 , when a proposal was made , after the Lord George Gordon Riots , that no Papist should be permitted to educate a Protestant , he said he had been educated as a Protestant of the Church of England by a ...
... speaking on 20th June , 1780 , when a proposal was made , after the Lord George Gordon Riots , that no Papist should be permitted to educate a Protestant , he said he had been educated as a Protestant of the Church of England by a ...
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... speak to him . I went to see Mr Brugh ' , but he was gone out of town . The Microcosm will leave town the 28th , so consider what to do . Send to me the next carman that goes , and I'll send you something , or send Harry Bawne . It is ...
... speak to him . I went to see Mr Brugh ' , but he was gone out of town . The Microcosm will leave town the 28th , so consider what to do . Send to me the next carman that goes , and I'll send you something , or send Harry Bawne . It is ...
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... speak his mind . I believe if his condition does not be speedily mended , he will not live half a year , for he is a mere hackleton ( sic ) and has a very sickly look ; and this may be , I think , attributed to his devil of an Aunt , of ...
... speak his mind . I believe if his condition does not be speedily mended , he will not live half a year , for he is a mere hackleton ( sic ) and has a very sickly look ; and this may be , I think , attributed to his devil of an Aunt , of ...
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... speak about it you are so well versed in all its parts that you would perceive a thousand errors in one sentence , and as you are so well acquainted with all the beauties of the heavens , I call ' em beauties , for beauty consists in ...
... speak about it you are so well versed in all its parts that you would perceive a thousand errors in one sentence , and as you are so well acquainted with all the beauties of the heavens , I call ' em beauties , for beauty consists in ...
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Page 357 - O most pernicious woman ! 0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain ! My tables/' — meet it is, I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain ; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark : [Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; It is, Adieu, adieu! remember me.
Page 93 - Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave ' of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more ! to all the house : Glamis hath murdered sleep; and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more .
Page 302 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 93 - Methought I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," — the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M.
Page 345 - But, when he speaks, what elocution flows! Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious accents fall, with easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eyes.
Page 101 - Against th' unwarlike Persian and the Mede, Whose hasty flight did, from a bloodless field, More spoils than honour to the victor yield. A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 207 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 19 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Page 117 - O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais...
Page 209 - You'll expect some short account of my journey to this great city. To tell you the truth, I made very few remarks as I rolled along, for my mind was occupied with many thoughts, and my eyes often filled with tears, when I reflected on all the dear friends I left behind...