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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... caused the reverend and grave master to implore them , with suppressed smiles , to desist , or he should have to turn them both out , as their example might be followed where folly would take the place of humour and wisdom2 . Edmund and ...
... caused the reverend and grave master to implore them , with suppressed smiles , to desist , or he should have to turn them both out , as their example might be followed where folly would take the place of humour and wisdom2 . Edmund and ...
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... cause of all my fear , The loss of such a happiness . V Just as the turtle in the grove Forsaken by her mate , The once companion of her love , In mournful coo laments her fate . 1 Shackleton MSS . in the possession of Mrs Pilgrim . VI ...
... cause of all my fear , The loss of such a happiness . V Just as the turtle in the grove Forsaken by her mate , The once companion of her love , In mournful coo laments her fate . 1 Shackleton MSS . in the possession of Mrs Pilgrim . VI ...
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... causes - the one want of a subject to write on , and the other , bad humour or the spleen ; which begot as I suppose , the scolding or jarring that runs through your disagreeable favour , or rather is the very essence of it ; and I ...
... causes - the one want of a subject to write on , and the other , bad humour or the spleen ; which begot as I suppose , the scolding or jarring that runs through your disagreeable favour , or rather is the very essence of it ; and I ...
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... cause any twitching or convulsion of the optick nerve . ' Part IV , sec . XXIII . 3 Newcomen Herbert appears in the Ballitore School list as joining in 1735. See ante pp . 25-36 . goes to school every day , and attends at other 40 IN ...
... cause any twitching or convulsion of the optick nerve . ' Part IV , sec . XXIII . 3 Newcomen Herbert appears in the Ballitore School list as joining in 1735. See ante pp . 25-36 . goes to school every day , and attends at other 40 IN ...
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... cause of my sending you that high and mighty epistle pro- ceeded from your styling me " Esq . " a title that I have not the least right to ; but as you , the humblest of my humble servants , have been pleased to confer it on me , I ...
... cause of my sending you that high and mighty epistle pro- ceeded from your styling me " Esq . " a title that I have not the least right to ; but as you , the humblest of my humble servants , have been pleased to confer it on me , I ...
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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.