A Life of Edmund BurkeG. Bell & Sons, 1891 - 545 pages |
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... view , as if unknown , those more useful and profound qualities which constitute his chief claims to distinction . Sometimes again , he is what they are pleased to term a philosophical politician , meaning by this to PREFACE . XTİ.
... view , as if unknown , those more useful and profound qualities which constitute his chief claims to distinction . Sometimes again , he is what they are pleased to term a philosophical politician , meaning by this to PREFACE . XTİ.
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... Sometimes he is even admitted to be the greatest writer of the age , while little allusion is made to that parliamentary eloquence which made his name as an orator more celebrated on the continent of Europe , while still a member of the ...
... Sometimes he is even admitted to be the greatest writer of the age , while little allusion is made to that parliamentary eloquence which made his name as an orator more celebrated on the continent of Europe , while still a member of the ...
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... sometimes held the Secretary's pen , and sometimes filled the President's chair ; and that in the original minutes of this society , his early Miltonic taste is thus recorded— " Friday , June 5 , 1747 , Mr. Burke being ordered to speak ...
... sometimes held the Secretary's pen , and sometimes filled the President's chair ; and that in the original minutes of this society , his early Miltonic taste is thus recorded— " Friday , June 5 , 1747 , Mr. Burke being ordered to speak ...
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... sometimes crossing to Ireland . In 1751 , as already mentioned , he took his master's degree , and is believed to have made some stay in Cork . Health , as much as curiosity , formed the inducement to these excur- sions . The former ...
... sometimes crossing to Ireland . In 1751 , as already mentioned , he took his master's degree , and is believed to have made some stay in Cork . Health , as much as curiosity , formed the inducement to these excur- sions . The former ...
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... sometimes unwillingly turn when more attractive objects invite him elsewhere . For the sun may shine , the fields look green , the flowers bloom in vain for him who in sallying forth to refresh his jaded intellect or exhausted frame ...
... sometimes unwillingly turn when more attractive objects invite him elsewhere . For the sun may shine , the fields look green , the flowers bloom in vain for him who in sallying forth to refresh his jaded intellect or exhausted frame ...
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