The Works of Edmund Burke, Volumen9

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C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839
 

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Página 644 - Nichol; and I am sure you will believe me, when I tell you, that if you are to withdraw yourself, or rather not to suffer justice to...
Página 658 - Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing. Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state.
Página 180 - Miserere rise from all parts of the city; and immediately all was silent ; the sea had entirely overwhelmed it, and buried it for ever in its bosom : but the same wave that destroyed it, drove a little boat by the place where he stood, into which he threw himself and was saved.
Página 302 - France, without determining, even sufficiently clear to settle our own demands, what part of the country was our own right, or what we determined to leave to the discretion of our neighbours ; or that, wholly intent upon settling the sea coast, we have never cast an eye into the country, to discover the necessity of making a barrier against them, with a proper force, which formerly did not need to have been a very great one, nor to be maintained at any great expense.
Página 462 - But it signifies nothing : what I wrote was to discharge a debt I thought to my own and my son's memory, and to those who ought not to be considered as guilty of prodigality in giving me what is beyond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I won't dispute longer about it — has overpaid me — I wish I could overpay my creditors. They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me.
Página 278 - WeftIndies is fugar ; this commodity was not at all known to the Greeks and Romans, though it was made in China in very early times, from whence we had the firft knowledge of it ; but the Portuguefe were the...
Página 470 - ... iniquity and oppression : But you are made to continue all that is good of me ; and to augment it with the various resources of a mind fertile in virtues, and cultivated with every sort of talent, and of knowledge. Above all make out the cruelty of this pretended acquittal, but in reality this barbarous and inhuman condemnation of whole tribes and nations, and of all the classes they contain. If ever Europe recovers its civilization, that work will be useful. Remember ! Remember ! Remember !...
Página 75 - Mexicans approached next morning to renew the assault, that unfortunate prince, at the mercy of the Spaniards, and reduced to the sad necessity of becoming the instrument of his own disgrace, and of the slavery of his people...
Página 376 - ... ten feet without the circumference ; under the end the earth is dug away, and barrels placed to receive the tar as it runs ; upon the floor is built up a large pile of dry...
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