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
... means to gain as allies the strong anti - Revolutionary elements which existed within France . Early in the history of the Coalition , Burke had taken up his pen to expose these funda- mental errors . He had predicted that the Coalition ...
... means to gain as allies the strong anti - Revolutionary elements which existed within France . Early in the history of the Coalition , Burke had taken up his pen to expose these funda- mental errors . He had predicted that the Coalition ...
Page xxxi
... means , and , in the eyes of many , at the sacrifice of national dignity and honour . Twice , at Basle and Berlin , had the British Ministry held out the hand of conciliation , and each time they had been met with a haughty rebuff . Yet ...
... means , and , in the eyes of many , at the sacrifice of national dignity and honour . Twice , at Basle and Berlin , had the British Ministry held out the hand of conciliation , and each time they had been met with a haughty rebuff . Yet ...
Page xxxii
... means . Nearly four centuries ago the power that was then devastating France had been broken by a poor girl at the door of an inn . Who should say that Providence had no second Joan of Arc , to save France from an enemy a thousandfold ...
... means . Nearly four centuries ago the power that was then devastating France had been broken by a poor girl at the door of an inn . Who should say that Providence had no second Joan of Arc , to save France from an enemy a thousandfold ...
Page xl
... 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 end was fast approaching . Towards the end of May , having spent four months at Bath to no ...
... 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 end was fast approaching . Towards the end of May , having spent four months at Bath to no ...
Page xlii
... means the extinction of those controlling instincts , and the extinction , in and through them , of all the power that gives to man's natural eminence in the animal world its natural extent and significance . Now the common relations ...
... means the extinction of those controlling instincts , and the extinction , in and through them , of all the power that gives to man's natural eminence in the animal world its natural extent and significance . Now the common relations ...
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