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 vii
... object of intervention and plunder . France had braced herself for resistance : she had proved her strength . Europe began to dread as well as to hate her . Meanwhile a fiercer element was added to the ferment . The dark days of ...
... object of intervention and plunder . France had braced herself for resistance : she had proved her strength . Europe began to dread as well as to hate her . Meanwhile a fiercer element was added to the ferment . The dark days of ...
Page xxv
... object was conquest , and which was everywhere attended with insult , with plunder , and with de- struction . This war could not be judged by any modern standard , or indeed by any single standard in the records of history . It ...
... object was conquest , and which was everywhere attended with insult , with plunder , and with de- struction . This war could not be judged by any modern standard , or indeed by any single standard in the records of history . It ...
Page xxxi
... object of policy : it was sought by every possible 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 ...
... object of policy : it was sought by every possible 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 ...
Page xxxix
... object : and the disposition of the nation may be estimated by the unparalleled fact that thirty - three editions of it were called for during the year . In this pamphlet Erskine appealed , in answer to Burke's First and Second Letters ...
... object : and the disposition of the nation may be estimated by the unparalleled fact that thirty - three editions of it were called for during the year . In this pamphlet Erskine appealed , in answer to Burke's First and Second Letters ...
Page xliii
... object have been tried , and have failed . War is to the community of nations what the ordinary means of justice are to single societies . It is clear that therefore nothing can banish it from the world which does not also banish ...
... object have been tried , and have failed . War is to the community of nations what the ordinary means of justice are to single societies . It is clear that therefore nothing can banish it from the world which does not also banish ...
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