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 xi
... house is expelled : and the robbers are in pos- session . ' Burke emphatically denounced that change which was fast transmuting a holy war into a war of mere plunder . France was , and always ought to be , a great nation . The liberties ...
... house is expelled : and the robbers are in pos- session . ' Burke emphatically denounced that change which was fast transmuting a holy war into a war of mere plunder . France was , and always ought to be , a great nation . The liberties ...
Page xiv
... houses the disposition to war predominated . When the war actually broke out , the question was debated with redoubled ardour . But the advocates of peace were nowhere . In vain did the calm , penetrating , practical statesmanship of ...
... houses the disposition to war predominated . When the war actually broke out , the question was debated with redoubled ardour . But the advocates of peace were nowhere . In vain did the calm , penetrating , practical statesmanship of ...
Page xvi
... house their action in plunging the nation into an un- necessary war with the Convention . Now that the Armed Coalition had failed and dissolved , he returned to the charge . On the 26th of January , 1795 , he moved To declare it to be ...
... house their action in plunging the nation into an un- necessary war with the Convention . Now that the Armed Coalition had failed and dissolved , he returned to the charge . On the 26th of January , 1795 , he moved To declare it to be ...
Page xvii
... house : but the majority against him was numerically less . And it was less in moral weight by one vote , that of Wilberforce , who on this occasion divided with the minority . When Parliament met for the Session of 1794-1795 , though ...
... house : but the majority against him was numerically less . And it was less in moral weight by one vote , that of Wilberforce , who on this occasion divided with the minority . When Parliament met for the Session of 1794-1795 , though ...
Page xxxv
... House by flinging the Birmingham dagger on the floor . Very different is that calm analysis of the French Republic which concludes the First Letter , and is continued in the Second . Keen of eye , and firm of hand , like some skilled ...
... House by flinging the Birmingham dagger on the floor . Very different is that calm analysis of the French Republic which concludes the First Letter , and is continued in the Second . Keen of eye , and firm of hand , like some skilled ...
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