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 xlii
... duty and interest of England as a member of the European family of nations is indeed a large subject . We have it in the present volume discussed by a large and forethoughtful mind . In times when the duties of nations to their ...
... duty and interest of England as a member of the European family of nations is indeed a large subject . We have it in the present volume discussed by a large and forethoughtful mind . In times when the duties of nations to their ...
Page xlvi
... duty , to stop the progress of an evil which attacked the funda- mental principles by which mankind were united in civil society . Burke readily admitted great limitations to this right of making war upon a neighbouring nation for ...
... duty , to stop the progress of an evil which attacked the funda- mental principles by which mankind were united in civil society . Burke readily admitted great limitations to this right of making war upon a neighbouring nation for ...
Page 44
... duty , to stop the progress of an evil , which exists only by the successive violation of all law and all property , and which attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society .'- ' The King ...
... duty , to stop the progress of an evil , which exists only by the successive violation of all law and all property , and which attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society .'- ' The King ...
Page 62
... duty not to give your Majesty this clear account , that there is a deadness and want of spirit in the nation universally , so as not to be at all disposed to entering into a new war . That they seem to be tired out with taxes to a ...
... duty not to give your Majesty this clear account , that there is a deadness and want of spirit in the nation universally , so as not to be at all disposed to entering into a new war . That they seem to be tired out with taxes to a ...
Page 74
... duties , have endeavoured , by every art , to make it sacred . The Christian Religion , by confining it to the pairs , and by rendering that relation indissoluble , has , by these two things , done more towards the peace , happiness ...
... duties , have endeavoured , by every art , to make it sacred . The Christian Religion , by confining it to the pairs , and by rendering that relation indissoluble , has , by these two things , done more towards the peace , happiness ...
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