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
... Jacobin principles , intrigues , and arms . A provisional govern- ment , he insisted , ought to be formed out of the French emigrants , and this government should be formally recognized . The Parliament of Paris should be organized ...
... Jacobin principles , intrigues , and arms . A provisional govern- ment , he insisted , ought to be formed out of the French emigrants , and this government should be formally recognized . The Parliament of Paris should be organized ...
Page xxi
... 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 societies . Let the English landed interest take warning ...
... 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 societies . Let the English landed interest take warning ...
Page xxv
... Jacobin , and still bent on a war with the ancient political system of Europe ; a war whose principle was fanaticism , whose object was conquest , and which was everywhere attended with insult , with plunder , and with de- struction ...
... Jacobin , and still bent on a war with the ancient political system of Europe ; a war whose principle was fanaticism , whose object was conquest , and which was everywhere attended with insult , with plunder , and with de- struction ...
Page xxxiii
... Jacobins , with Lansdowne , Fox , and Grey at their head , bear to the English nation ? Burke was ready with an answer : and his answer , based as it was on data which he thought sufficient , is a curious and valuable piece of ...
... Jacobins , with Lansdowne , Fox , and Grey at their head , bear to the English nation ? Burke was ready with an answer : and his answer , based as it was on data which he thought sufficient , is a curious and valuable piece of ...
Page xxxv
... Jacobin Peace concludes the Fourth Letter . In such a spirit he had astonished the 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 ...
... Jacobin Peace concludes the Fourth Letter . In such a spirit he had astonished the 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 ...
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