Burke, Select Works: Four letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. New ed. 1892Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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Page xvii
... Crown or Assembly - England was making the Regicide Government a mere stalking - horse to cover her greed and her ambition , to gratify a jealousy pent up during twenty years , and to avenge on France the loss of that fairest empire an ...
... Crown or Assembly - England was making the Regicide Government a mere stalking - horse to cover her greed and her ambition , to gratify a jealousy pent up during twenty years , and to avenge on France the loss of that fairest empire an ...
Page xxi
... Crown become , and the more unpopular the Whig anti - Jacobins with the people . So far , the Revolution had been a wholesome lesson to headstrong kings . But it had been a wholesome lesson also to the upper classes of all political ...
... Crown become , and the more unpopular the Whig anti - Jacobins with the people . So far , the Revolution had been a wholesome lesson to headstrong kings . But it had been a wholesome lesson also to the upper classes of all political ...
Page xxii
... Crown , the succession , the importance , the independence , the very existence , of the country . These expressions , however , were private . Burke still hoped that the Ministry had not come to their final decision . He still hoped ...
... Crown , the succession , the importance , the independence , the very existence , of the country . These expressions , however , were private . Burke still hoped that the Ministry had not come to their final decision . He still hoped ...
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... discern , nor the most provident to divine . A very little time before its dreadful catastrophe , there was a kind of exterior splendour in the situation of the Crown , RISE OF THE REPUBLIC . 7 which usually adds to 6 REGICIDE PEACE . I.
... discern , nor the most provident to divine . A very little time before its dreadful catastrophe , there was a kind of exterior splendour in the situation of the Crown , RISE OF THE REPUBLIC . 7 which usually adds to 6 REGICIDE PEACE . I.
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... Crown seemed then to have obtained some of the most splendid objects of state ambition . None of the Continental Powers of Europe were the enemies of France . They were all either tacitly disposed to her or publickly connected with her ...
... Crown seemed then to have obtained some of the most splendid objects of state ambition . None of the Continental Powers of Europe were the enemies of France . They were all either tacitly disposed to her or publickly connected with her ...
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