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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... whilst all Europe , England included , is left open and defenceless on every part , to Jacobin principles , intrigues , and arms . A provisional govern- ment , he insisted , ought to be formed out of the French emigrants , and this ...
... whilst all Europe , England included , is left open and defenceless on every part , to Jacobin principles , intrigues , and arms . A provisional govern- ment , he insisted , ought to be formed out of the French emigrants , and this ...
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... Whilst our heart is whole , it will find means , or make them . The heart of the citizen is a perennial spring of energy to the State . Because the pulse seems to intermit , we must not presume that it will cease instantly to beat . The ...
... Whilst our heart is whole , it will find means , or make them . The heart of the citizen is a perennial spring of energy to the State . Because the pulse seems to intermit , we must not presume that it will cease instantly to beat . The ...
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... whilst , as in the Alps , goitre kept goitre in countenance ; whilst we were thus abandoning ourselves to a direct confession of our inferiority to France , and whilst many , very many , were ready to act upon a sense of that ...
... whilst , as in the Alps , goitre kept goitre in countenance ; whilst we were thus abandoning ourselves to a direct confession of our inferiority to France , and whilst many , very many , were ready to act upon a sense of that ...
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... whilst all the sources of that power , and of every sort of power , are precarious ) , but in that sort of England , who considered herself as embodied with Europe ; in that sort of England , who , sympathetick with the adversity or the ...
... whilst all the sources of that power , and of every sort of power , are precarious ) , but in that sort of England , who considered herself as embodied with Europe ; in that sort of England , who , sympathetick with the adversity or the ...
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... whilst all the advantages obtained by the Regicides , have been fol- lowed by the consequences that were natural . The dis- comfitures , which the Republick of Assassins has suffered , have uniformly called forth new exertions , which ...
... whilst all the advantages obtained by the Regicides , have been fol- lowed by the consequences that were natural . The dis- comfitures , which the Republick of Assassins has suffered , have uniformly called forth new exertions , which ...
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