Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives : for Use in Schools and Classes |
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Some time before this, he began to interest himself deeply in the wrongs of India.
His sensibilities, always most keenly alive to the sufferings of others, got wrought
up to an extraordinary pitch in this behalf. On the 30th of July, 1784, he brought ...
Some time before this, he began to interest himself deeply in the wrongs of India.
His sensibilities, always most keenly alive to the sufferings of others, got wrought
up to an extraordinary pitch in this behalf. On the 30th of July, 1784, he brought ...
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... to have expired with his pen in hand, tracing out some branch of what he
conceived to be England's duty and interest in the awful crisis that had arisen. In
July, 1794, Burke retired finally from Parliament, and his son Richard, then thirty-
six ...
... to have expired with his pen in hand, tracing out some branch of what he
conceived to be England's duty and interest in the awful crisis that had arisen. In
July, 1794, Burke retired finally from Parliament, and his son Richard, then thirty-
six ...
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Wanting feelings for the honour of our country, we might then in cold blood be
brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens and our private
conscience as moral agents. Indeed, our affairs are in a bad condition. I do
assure those ...
Wanting feelings for the honour of our country, we might then in cold blood be
brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens and our private
conscience as moral agents. Indeed, our affairs are in a bad condition. I do
assure those ...
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... are animated nearly with the same fury against those neighbours of theirs
whose only crime it is, that they have charitably and humanely wished them to
entertain more reasonable sentiments, and not always to sacrifice their interest to
their ...
... are animated nearly with the same fury against those neighbours of theirs
whose only crime it is, that they have charitably and humanely wished them to
entertain more reasonable sentiments, and not always to sacrifice their interest to
their ...
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I never ventured to put your solid interests upon speculative grounds. My having
constantly declined to do so has been attributed to my incapacity for such
disquisitions; and I am inclined to believe it is partly the cause. I never shall be ...
I never ventured to put your solid interests upon speculative grounds. My having
constantly declined to do so has been attributed to my incapacity for such
disquisitions; and I am inclined to believe it is partly the cause. I never shall be ...
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| Title | Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives : for Use in Schools and Classes |
| Author | Henry Norman Hudson |
| Publisher | Ginn Brothers, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 636 pages |
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