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The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Brief Sketches of the ... - Page 363
by Edmund Lodge - 1832 - 409 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...— many of us remember them ; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 18

History - 1778 - 626 pages
...considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to a« ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for...fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souk. He worshipped that goddesswheresoever «he appeared ; but he; paid his particular devotions to...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 4

1801 - 618 pages
...•virtues and failings, for failings he undoubtedly had : many of us remember them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion, a passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct ot all great souls. He worshipped that goddess...
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Public Characters, Volume 4

Biography - 1804 - 646 pages
...virtues and failings, for )ailirg> lie undoubtedly had ; many of us remember them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion, a passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped ihal goddess...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...— many of us remember them ; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...— many of us remember them ; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...undoubtedly. Many of us remember them. We are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...Many of us remember them. We are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no fail, ings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 2

Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...Many of us remember them—- We are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...many of us remember them — we are this day considering the effects of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent,...passion, which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her...
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