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
... nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of the 1 Remarks on the Policy of the Allies , 1793 . 1 Toulon fleet , had hitherto kept the Grand Duke of ...
... nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of the 1 Remarks on the Policy of the Allies , 1793 . 1 Toulon fleet , had hitherto kept the Grand Duke of ...
Page xxiv
... nature to shrink from taking up his pen at such a juncture , even though the effort should lead to a sustained controversy . He began with the pamphlet of October , which he examined in a letter addressed to the Earl Fitzwilliam ...
... nature to shrink from taking up his pen at such a juncture , even though the effort should lead to a sustained controversy . He began with the pamphlet of October , which he examined in a letter addressed to the Earl Fitzwilliam ...
Page xxxv
... natural and inborn atrociousness of the French Republic , and of the crimes and follies of the Assembly and Convention ... nature , powerful in its resources , served by sagacious minds and iron sinews , avowedly warring against the rest ...
... natural and inborn atrociousness of the French Republic , and of the crimes and follies of the Assembly and Convention ... nature , powerful in its resources , served by sagacious minds and iron sinews , avowedly warring against the rest ...
Page xlii
... nature , and when political conditions all over the world are rapidly becoming such that the attitude of nations to ... natural eminence in the animal world its natural extent and significance . Now the common relations and interests of ...
... nature , and when political conditions all over the world are rapidly becoming such that the attitude of nations to ... natural eminence in the animal world its natural extent and significance . Now the common relations and interests of ...
Page xliii
... nature within a certain space of time . But it is false to argue from this to similar conditions in the body politic . The body politic , well says Mr. Mill , may indeed die : but it dies of disease or violence , not of old age . That ...
... nature within a certain space of time . But it is false to argue from this to similar conditions in the body politic . The body politic , well says Mr. Mill , may indeed die : but it dies of disease or violence , not of old age . That ...
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