 Poverty, sterility, and desolation, are not a recreating prospect to the eye of man; and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 29by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1784 - 118 pages
...avarice drove the Tartar lords to adb of rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the fhorc life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an...were made by violence and tyranny, they were ftill domeftic hoards ; and domeftic profufion, or the rapine of a more powerful and prodigal hand, reftored... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1784 - 660 pages
...bear to grow old among the curfes of a whok people. If their paffion or their avarice drove the Taitai lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny, there was time...even in the fhort life of man, to bring round the ill effea-' of art abufe of power upon the power itfelf. If hoards were made by violence and tyranny, they... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1786 - 376 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curfes of a whole people. If their paffion or their avarice drove the Tartar Lords to acts of...even in the fhort life of man, to bring round the ill effedh of an abufe of power upon the power itlelf. If hoards were made by violence and tyranny, they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...fhould not be caft in a bad land. Poverty, fterility, and defolation, are not a recreating profpect to the eye of man; and there are very few who can...were made by violence and tyranny, they were ftill domeftic hoards ; and domeftic profufion, or the rapine of a more powerful and prodigal hand, reftored... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of...rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself. If hoards... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 468 pages
...old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion, or their avarice, drove the Tartar hordes to acts of rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself. If hoards... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of...rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself. If hoards... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of...rapacity, or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the shm I life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power npon the power itself. If hoards... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 532 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of...rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself. If hoards... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. IF their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of...rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to .bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself.' If... | |
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