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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... consider how far the minority , in proposing peace , could be considered as expressing the public mind of England . None but regicide sympathizers could really desire a regicide peace : the rest of the nation , if once roused to a full ...
... consider how far the minority , in proposing peace , could be considered as expressing the public mind of England . None but regicide sympathizers could really desire a regicide peace : the rest of the nation , if once roused to a full ...
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... consider a temporizing meanness as the only source of safety . The rules and definitions of prudence can rarely be exact ; never universal . I do not deny that in small truckling states a timely compromise with power has often been the ...
... consider a temporizing meanness as the only source of safety . The rules and definitions of prudence can rarely be exact ; never universal . I do not deny that in small truckling states a timely compromise with power has often been the ...
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... consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand , no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a part , but the head , so neither can England pretend to cope with France ...
... consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand , no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a part , but the head , so neither can England pretend to cope with France ...
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... consider the conduct of the enemy together with our own , from the day that a question of peace has been in agitation . In considering this part of the question , I do not proceed on my own hypothesis . I suppose , for a moment , that ...
... consider the conduct of the enemy together with our own , from the day that a question of peace has been in agitation . In considering this part of the question , I do not proceed on my own hypothesis . I suppose , for a moment , that ...
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... consider the importance of their seeming to confirm the enemy in an opinion , that his frequent appeals to the people against their Government have not been without their effect . If it puts an end to this war , it will render another ...
... consider the importance of their seeming to confirm the enemy in an opinion , that his frequent appeals to the people against their Government have not been without their effect . If it puts an end to this war , it will render another ...
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