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 xl
... danger , ' he wrote , ' is coming thundering upon us . We are miserably unprepared , in means and in spirit , for the crisis . ' But while the need was growing more urgent , Burke was growing less and less able to respond to it . The ...
... danger , ' he wrote , ' is coming thundering upon us . We are miserably unprepared , in means and in spirit , for the crisis . ' But while the need was growing more urgent , Burke was growing less and less able to respond to it . The ...
Page xliv
... dangers which are peculiar to her position . The relations of England with the rest of Europe differ widely from the relations among themselves of the nations which compose the rest of Europe . The physical cause , in Burke's phrase ...
... dangers which are peculiar to her position . The relations of England with the rest of Europe differ widely from the relations among themselves of the nations which compose the rest of Europe . The physical cause , in Burke's phrase ...
Page xlvi
... dangerous nuisance . This was the ground that had been taken up in the famous Whitehall Declaration . All the surrounding powers , it was there said , had a right , and felt it a duty , to stop the progress of an evil which attacked the ...
... dangerous nuisance . This was the ground that had been taken up in the famous Whitehall Declaration . All the surrounding powers , it was there said , had a right , and felt it a duty , to stop the progress of an evil which attacked the ...
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... danger ; but in the palpable night of their terrors , men under consternation suppose , not that it is the danger , which , by a sure instinct , calls out the courage to resist it , but that it is the courage which produces the danger ...
... danger ; but in the palpable night of their terrors , men under consternation suppose , not that it is the danger , which , by a sure instinct , calls out the courage to resist it , but that it is the courage which produces the danger ...
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... danger , as well as the certain ruin of interests of a superiour order . Often has a man lost his all because he would not submit to hazard all in defending it . A display of our wealth before robbers is not the way to restrain their ...
... danger , as well as the certain ruin of interests of a superiour order . Often has a man lost his all because he would not submit to hazard all in defending it . A display of our wealth before robbers is not the way to restrain their ...
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