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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... publick must never be regarded as incurable . I remember in the beginning of what has lately been called the Seven Years ' War , that an eloquent writer and ingenious speculator , Dr. Brown , upon some reverses which happened in the ...
... publick must never be regarded as incurable . I remember in the beginning of what has lately been called the Seven Years ' War , that an eloquent writer and ingenious speculator , Dr. Brown , upon some reverses which happened in the ...
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... publick fortune nor of the publick mind . There is much to be done undoubtedly , and much to be retrieved . We must walk in new ways , or we can never encounter our enemy in his devious march . We are not at an end of our struggle , nor ...
... publick fortune nor of the publick mind . There is much to be done undoubtedly , and much to be retrieved . We must walk in new ways , or we can never encounter our enemy in his devious march . We are not at an end of our struggle , nor ...
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... publick honour , then wealth is in it's place , and has it's use . But if this order is changed , and honor is to be sacrificed to the conservation of riches , riches , which have neither eyes nor hands , nor any thing truly vital in ...
... publick honour , then wealth is in it's place , and has it's use . But if this order is changed , and honor is to be sacrificed to the conservation of riches , riches , which have neither eyes nor hands , nor any thing truly vital in ...
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... publick force ( of which money is but a part ) is in any degree upon a par in a conflict between nations , that state which is resolved to hazard it's existence rather than to abandon it's objects , must have an infinite advantage over ...
... publick force ( of which money is but a part ) is in any degree upon a par in a conflict between nations , that state which is resolved to hazard it's existence rather than to abandon it's objects , must have an infinite advantage over ...
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... publick disaster , or to reveal it by degrees , until the minds of the people have time to be re - collected , that their understanding may have leisure to rally , and that more steady counsels may prevent their doing something ...
... publick disaster , or to reveal it by degrees , until the minds of the people have time to be re - collected , that their understanding may have leisure to rally , and that more steady counsels may prevent their doing something ...
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