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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... Lord Mayor of Dublin acknowledging the honour done to him by his " native city " in conferring its freedom upon him . Notwith- standing careful investigation and long discussion , the precise house on Arran Quay in which he was born ...
... Lord Mayor of Dublin acknowledging the honour done to him by his " native city " in conferring its freedom upon him . Notwith- standing careful investigation and long discussion , the precise house on Arran Quay in which he was born ...
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... Lord Bishop in the presence of THO . CASEY ( BOY ) LE BROWNE . RICHD . BURKE ( seal ) GARRET NAGLE ( seal ) It will be noted that the name is spelled Bourke in the body of the bond , but it is signed Richard Burke . The name is spelled ...
... Lord Bishop in the presence of THO . CASEY ( BOY ) LE BROWNE . RICHD . BURKE ( seal ) GARRET NAGLE ( seal ) It will be noted that the name is spelled Bourke in the body of the bond , but it is signed Richard Burke . The name is spelled ...
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... Lord 1766 by the Rt Worshipful Alex . McAulay , Esqre , Doctor of Laws , Vicar General of the Diocese of Dublin and Official Principal and Chancellor of the Consistorial and Metropolitan Court of Dublin lawfully constituted , to ...
... Lord 1766 by the Rt Worshipful Alex . McAulay , Esqre , Doctor of Laws , Vicar General of the Diocese of Dublin and Official Principal and Chancellor of the Consistorial and Metropolitan Court of Dublin lawfully constituted , to ...
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... 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 dissenter , who was an honour to his sect , though that sect was ...
... 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 dissenter , who was an honour to his sect , though that sect was ...
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... Park not far from Arran Quay which was then being laid out and beautified by Lord Chesterfield . The splendid and ancient hawthorn trees are still the pride of May . But here the muse nor can nor will declare , 3-2 IN TRINITY COLLEGE 35.
... Park not far from Arran Quay which was then being laid out and beautified by Lord Chesterfield . The splendid and ancient hawthorn trees are still the pride of May . But here the muse nor can nor will declare , 3-2 IN TRINITY COLLEGE 35.
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Page 226 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 264 - My sentence is for open war : of wiles, More unexpert, I boast not : them let those Contrive who need, or when they need, not now...
Page 101 - 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 labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 101 - 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 264 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...
Page 231 - It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable Electorate; and that, in consequence of a scheme formed long ago, and invariably pursued, these troops are hired only to drain this unhappy nation of its money.
Page 107 - 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 401 - Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Page 215 - 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 14 - He had been educated (he said) as a protestant of the church of England by a dissenter who was an honour to his sect, though that sect was considered one of the purest. Under his eye he had read the Bible, morning, noon, and night, and had ever since been the happier and better man for such reading.