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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 48
1821
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual, native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably...our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an un pi '-IUL: and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree ami illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings...
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Gatherings from many authors, by P.S. Sparling

Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It causes an imposing and majestic aspect, it has a pedigree, and illustrating ancestors; it has its ensigns,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1855 - 632 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably...illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns anrorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and...
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Historical and Biographical Essays, Volume 1

John Forster - 1858 - 408 pages
...of the spirit of English Freedom that, always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, it carries an imposing and majestic aspect. " It |...a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its I " bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery i, " of portraits, its monumental inscriptions,...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence, almost inevitably...illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns-armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences,...
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The Universal review, Volume 2

1859 - 914 pages
...liberal descent, which, to use the language of Burke, "inspires a sense of habitual native dignity, and prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably...those who are the first acquirers of any distinction." The son of a distinguished father is of no more account than any other man, and does not get, as in...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence, almost inevitably...illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns-armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...us with a sense of hahitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitahly on and ruin, as a sacred temple, purged from all the impurities of fraud, and violence, and injust liherty hecomes a nohle freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and...
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Die Verfassung Englands

Eduard Fischel - 1862 - 596 pages
...Angliae c. 9. 29. 2) It has a pedigree and illustrating aucestors. It has its bearings and its ensings armorial. It has its gallery of portraits, its monumental inscriptions, its records, evideuces and title.s (Buike). giebt wenige Volksrechte, wenig Gesetze gegen willkürliche Gewalt,...
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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably...its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its galjery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles. We procure...
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