Memoir of the Life and Character of ... Edmund Burke with Specimens of His Poetry and Letters (etc.)Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1824 |
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Page xiii
... slow , but steady and sure , evolution of public opinion ; by the living and speaking evidences to his deserts of a constitution preserved from demolition or in- ers . road , an unshaken throne , an unpolluted altar , PREFACE . xiii.
... slow , but steady and sure , evolution of public opinion ; by the living and speaking evidences to his deserts of a constitution preserved from demolition or in- ers . road , an unshaken throne , an unpolluted altar , PREFACE . xiii.
Page xvii
... opinion , but on record in his speeches and writings - surely it savours of impertinence to say he would have succeeded better in any thing else . It is time that this ungenerous warfare against his fame should cease . No man intimately ...
... opinion , but on record in his speeches and writings - surely it savours of impertinence to say he would have succeeded better in any thing else . It is time that this ungenerous warfare against his fame should cease . No man intimately ...
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... opinion of him , and of whom some notices will hereafter occur , also died unmarried . The issue of Mrs. French alone survive ; Thomas Haviland Burke , Esq . of Lin- coln's Inn , her grandson , being the lineal repre- sentative of the ...
... opinion of him , and of whom some notices will hereafter occur , also died unmarried . The issue of Mrs. French alone survive ; Thomas Haviland Burke , Esq . of Lin- coln's Inn , her grandson , being the lineal repre- sentative of the ...
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... opinion on these points made neither worse subjects , nor worse men . Reflection , and the remembrance that many ... opinions on this point are known to have been formed 12 LIFE OF THE.
... opinion on these points made neither worse subjects , nor worse men . Reflection , and the remembrance that many ... opinions on this point are known to have been formed 12 LIFE OF THE.
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... opinion of Johnson , he thought much inferior to Fielding as a describer of human nature . Demosthenes was his favourite orator ; Plutarch's writings he professed , in a letter to a friend at this time , to admire beyond those of any ...
... opinion of Johnson , he thought much inferior to Fielding as a describer of human nature . Demosthenes was his favourite orator ; Plutarch's writings he professed , in a letter to a friend at this time , to admire beyond those of any ...
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