The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeNath. Cooke, 1854 - 316 pages |
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... ment , men of fashion , and literati . This club , of which she was even president , dwindling into party and political strife , Miss Wof- fington retired in disgust , and returned to London in 1756 . It was at this time that Edmund ...
... ment , men of fashion , and literati . This club , of which she was even president , dwindling into party and political strife , Miss Wof- fington retired in disgust , and returned to London in 1756 . It was at this time that Edmund ...
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... ment , the company generally consisted of authors , players , tem- plars , and lounging - men about town . In this " British Inquisition " Burke was a debater , whether a leading one or not is unknown , but certainly so much so to his ...
... ment , the company generally consisted of authors , players , tem- plars , and lounging - men about town . In this " British Inquisition " Burke was a debater , whether a leading one or not is unknown , but certainly so much so to his ...
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... MENT OF THE " ANNUAL REGISTER " -OPENING POLITICAL CAREER . THE labour of perfecting and producing in one year two such works as the " Vindication of Natural Society " and the " Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful " was too much , if not ...
... MENT OF THE " ANNUAL REGISTER " -OPENING POLITICAL CAREER . THE labour of perfecting and producing in one year two such works as the " Vindication of Natural Society " and the " Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful " was too much , if not ...
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... ment required . Yet his choice of a counsellor and favourite was ( not ac- cording to the mode of the time ) out of that order , and a choice that does honour to his memory : this was Lanfranc , a man of great learning for the times ...
... ment required . Yet his choice of a counsellor and favourite was ( not ac- cording to the mode of the time ) out of that order , and a choice that does honour to his memory : this was Lanfranc , a man of great learning for the times ...
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... ment in this curious kind of celebrity , as , indeed , his very repeti- tion of the act in the Irish House would go to show . His retire- ment upon a profitable sinecure office after a very few years of political labour , and his ...
... ment in this curious kind of celebrity , as , indeed , his very repeti- tion of the act in the Irish House would go to show . His retire- ment upon a profitable sinecure office after a very few years of political labour , and his ...
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