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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... persons with whom , and the circumstances in which , any nego- tiations for ending it should be undertaken . He therefore carried an amendment , resolving to prosecute the war ' until a pacification could be effected , on just and ...
... persons with whom , and the circumstances in which , any nego- tiations for ending it should be undertaken . He therefore carried an amendment , resolving to prosecute the war ' until a pacification could be effected , on just and ...
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... a power which discharged those functions which had been once discharged by the Com- mittee of Public Safety , and which in a very short time were INTRODUCTION . xix concentrated in the person of a single xviii INTRODUCTION .
... a power which discharged those functions which had been once discharged by the Com- mittee of Public Safety , and which in a very short time were INTRODUCTION . xix concentrated in the person of a single xviii INTRODUCTION .
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Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. INTRODUCTION . xix concentrated in the person of a single man . France had need of a strong executive power . Where was such a power to be found ? Where but in her own best - approved citizens ? Of these ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. INTRODUCTION . xix concentrated in the person of a single man . France had need of a strong executive power . Where was such a power to be found ? Where but in her own best - approved citizens ? Of these ...
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... persons in power . Mr. Pitt could not therefore speak in positive terms as to the particular measures the Government would be able to adopt . He took the opportunity , however , of solemnly affirming one of Burke's main arguments . He ...
... persons in power . Mr. Pitt could not therefore speak in positive terms as to the particular measures the Government would be able to adopt . He took the opportunity , however , of solemnly affirming one of Burke's main arguments . He ...
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... person the cause of the peacemakers must stand or fall . In due time Lord Malmesbury set out on his mission . The anxiety which prevailed as to its result suggested the remark that his journey to Paris was a slow one . Burke ...
... person the cause of the peacemakers must stand or fall . In due time Lord Malmesbury set out on his mission . The anxiety which prevailed as to its result suggested the remark that his journey to Paris was a slow one . Burke ...
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