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 v
... murdered in a prison . King's brothers , with the remnant of the anti - Revolutionary party , had fled from French soil to spread terror and indignation through Europe . Meanwhile , the destinies of France had been shaped by successive ...
... murdered in a prison . King's brothers , with the remnant of the anti - Revolutionary party , had fled from French soil to spread terror and indignation through Europe . Meanwhile , the destinies of France had been shaped by successive ...
Page xvi
... murdered a mild and lawful monarch , but had declared war against monarchs and monarchies throughout the world . Grey had stated his motion too categorically . Pitt was deter- mined neither to accept nor to reject it . He honestly ...
... murdered a mild and lawful monarch , but had declared war against monarchs and monarchies throughout the world . Grey had stated his motion too categorically . Pitt was deter- mined neither to accept nor to reject it . He honestly ...
Page xxxii
... murdered French Monarchy . The ends of Providence were often accomplished by slight 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 ...
... murdered French Monarchy . The ends of Providence were often accomplished by slight 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 ...
Page xliv
... murdered a man , but that men may not be murdered . Of vindictive or avenging justice , fully civilized society knows nothing . That form of justice , in the strict sense , has long been left by legislators to other and not less potent ...
... murdered a man , but that men may not be murdered . Of vindictive or avenging justice , fully civilized society knows nothing . That form of justice , in the strict sense , has long been left by legislators to other and not less potent ...
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... murdered Monarchy in France , has arisen a vast , tremendous , un- formed spectre , in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination and subdued the fortitude of man . Going straight forward to its ...
... murdered Monarchy in France , has arisen a vast , tremendous , un- formed spectre , in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination and subdued the fortitude of man . Going straight forward to its ...
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