A Life of Edmund BurkeG. Bell & Sons, 1891 - 545 pages |
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... never said , or believed , that she was condemned to such a state of perpetual , irreversible slavery , that no accident in the progress of time could extricate her from it . What he really said and enforced was , that her Revolution of ...
... never said , or believed , that she was condemned to such a state of perpetual , irreversible slavery , that no accident in the progress of time could extricate her from it . What he really said and enforced was , that her Revolution of ...
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... never thought of the hazard , please your Majesty . " " But do you think you " Please would run such a risk again , Captain Nagle ? " your Majesty , I would go to h - 11 at any time to serve a friend , " replied the plain - spoken ...
... never thought of the hazard , please your Majesty . " " But do you think you " Please would run such a risk again , Captain Nagle ? " your Majesty , I would go to h - 11 at any time to serve a friend , " replied the plain - spoken ...
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... never did practise in the country , but always in the superior courts : that he was for many years not only in the first rank , but the very first man of his profession in point of practice and credit ; until by giving way to splenetic ...
... never did practise in the country , but always in the superior courts : that he was for many years not only in the first rank , but the very first man of his profession in point of practice and credit ; until by giving way to splenetic ...
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Sir James Prior. never felt so heavy a grief : nor really did I well know what it was before . You may well believe this when I tell you that for three days together we expected her death every moment . " The air of the country , however ...
Sir James Prior. never felt so heavy a grief : nor really did I well know what it was before . You may well believe this when I tell you that for three days together we expected her death every moment . " The air of the country , however ...
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... never forgot his obligations . Among his schoolfellows were Dr. Brocklesby , the physician , afterwards so well known in the literary circles of London ; the Rev. Michael Kearney , brother to one of the Bishops of Ossory , a modest and ...
... never forgot his obligations . Among his schoolfellows were Dr. Brocklesby , the physician , afterwards so well known in the literary circles of London ; the Rev. Michael Kearney , brother to one of the Bishops of Ossory , a modest and ...
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