The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeNath. Cooke, 1854 - 316 pages |
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... give early vent to the ardent aspirations of the boy . Necessity for country air , for the invigoration of his frame , made the parents of Edmund Burke send him to sojourn at intervals in his grand- father's house at Castletown Roche ...
... give early vent to the ardent aspirations of the boy . Necessity for country air , for the invigoration of his frame , made the parents of Edmund Burke send him to sojourn at intervals in his grand- father's house at Castletown Roche ...
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... give a description in Latin verse of the objects they saw , with their impressions from them . Edmund wrote , on his own account , a full and able description of what he beheld . A schoolfellow , whose exercises Burke often composed for ...
... give a description in Latin verse of the objects they saw , with their impressions from them . Edmund wrote , on his own account , a full and able description of what he beheld . A schoolfellow , whose exercises Burke often composed for ...
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... give things immortal in exchange for daily bread . Strange does it now seem , when one reverts to Goldsmith , and finds him looked down upon by Johnson , Reynolds , Horace Walpole , Garrick , and other celebrities of his day . Johnson ...
... give things immortal in exchange for daily bread . Strange does it now seem , when one reverts to Goldsmith , and finds him looked down upon by Johnson , Reynolds , Horace Walpole , Garrick , and other celebrities of his day . Johnson ...
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... give fur- ther explanation of the plan . " At Macklin's great room in Hart Street , Covent Garden , this day , being the 21st November , 1754 , will be commenced THE BRITISH INQUISITION . " The doors will be opened at five , and the ...
... give fur- ther explanation of the plan . " At Macklin's great room in Hart Street , Covent Garden , this day , being the 21st November , 1754 , will be commenced THE BRITISH INQUISITION . " The doors will be opened at five , and the ...
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... , all - valuable as Hume's history proved to be , the few chapters which exist of that by Burke give sample of a composition of a character so different from that of ESSAY ON ENGLISH HISTORY . 35 Hume , yet so 34 LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE .
... , all - valuable as Hume's history proved to be , the few chapters which exist of that by Burke give sample of a composition of a character so different from that of ESSAY ON ENGLISH HISTORY . 35 Hume , yet so 34 LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE .
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