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Page v
... presents throughout his whole course an example pleasing to contemplate , and of infinite ad- vantage to study . Burke's speeches and writings have , by frequent repetition , reference , and quotation , become known to most people in ...
... presents throughout his whole course an example pleasing to contemplate , and of infinite ad- vantage to study . Burke's speeches and writings have , by frequent repetition , reference , and quotation , become known to most people in ...
Page vi
... , his going further . Each of these long and tedious memoirs is wretched as a whole , yet the present author has found in some of the earlier of them PREFACE . vii facts and details pertinent and applicable to vi PREFACE .
... , his going further . Each of these long and tedious memoirs is wretched as a whole , yet the present author has found in some of the earlier of them PREFACE . vii facts and details pertinent and applicable to vi PREFACE .
Page vii
... present volume attempts to remedy the deficiency , by re- lating the history of Edmund Burke , both as a private person and a public character , in a compact , and , it is presumed , an easily intelligible shape . The author's aim and ...
... present volume attempts to remedy the deficiency , by re- lating the history of Edmund Burke , both as a private person and a public character , in a compact , and , it is presumed , an easily intelligible shape . The author's aim and ...
Page x
... present Discontents ” - Speech on American taxation - Charles Fox - Burke's election for Malton and Bristol - Speech on American conciliation - Dr.Johnson's pamphlet - American war- -Economical reform - Gordon Riots- Slave - trade ...
... present Discontents ” - Speech on American taxation - Charles Fox - Burke's election for Malton and Bristol - Speech on American conciliation - Dr.Johnson's pamphlet - American war- -Economical reform - Gordon Riots- Slave - trade ...
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... present day . From which of these branches Edmund Burke traced his ancestry has never been clearly ascertained . That he was a de- scendant of an offshoot of Clanricarde , several circumstances tend to show . Tradition , so often , and ...
... present day . From which of these branches Edmund Burke traced his ancestry has never been clearly ascertained . That he was a de- scendant of an offshoot of Clanricarde , several circumstances tend to show . Tradition , so often , and ...
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