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 viii
... common ground of negotiation . Crediting the reports of English sympathizers , the Parisian poli- ticians believed the English Monarchy to be on the verge of a dissolution as complete as that which had befallen their own . They showed ...
... common ground of negotiation . Crediting the reports of English sympathizers , the Parisian poli- ticians believed the English Monarchy to be on the verge of a dissolution as complete as that which had befallen their own . They showed ...
Page xxiv
... common welfare of Europe at heart , that it was reasonably probable . The Ministry would now negotiate . What the issue of their ne- gotiations might be , depended on the views and the temper of France . If France wished for peace on ...
... common welfare of Europe at heart , that it was reasonably probable . The Ministry would now negotiate . What the issue of their ne- gotiations might be , depended on the views and the temper of France . If France wished for peace on ...
Page xlii
... common relations and interests of men in society , their mutual likings and dislikings , their jealousies and their ambitions , their selfishness and their generosity , and the whole mass of the sentiments and the reasonings which ...
... common relations and interests of men in society , their mutual likings and dislikings , their jealousies and their ambitions , their selfishness and their generosity , and the whole mass of the sentiments and the reasonings which ...
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... common soldier , a child , a girl at the door of an inn , have changed the face of fortune , and almost of Nature . SUCH , and often influenced by such causes , has commonly been the fate of Monarchies of long duration . They have their ...
... common soldier , a child , a girl at the door of an inn , have changed the face of fortune , and almost of Nature . SUCH , and often influenced by such causes , has commonly been the fate of Monarchies of long duration . They have their ...
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