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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... speculative men . I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough , if ever it can be so , to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a State . I am far from denying ...
... speculative men . I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough , if ever it can be so , to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a State . I am far from denying ...
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... speculation , of which we were ourselves the objects , and in which every man lost his particular sense of the publick ... speculative despondency , and were buoyed up to the highest point of practical vigour . Never did the masculine ...
... speculation , of which we were ourselves the objects , and in which every man lost his particular sense of the publick ... speculative despondency , and were buoyed up to the highest point of practical vigour . Never did the masculine ...
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... losses , but prepared new conquests . The losses of the allies , on the contrary , ( no provision having been made on the speculation of such an event ) have been followed by desertion , by dismay , by disunion , by a DISASTERS ABROAD. ...
... losses , but prepared new conquests . The losses of the allies , on the contrary , ( no provision having been made on the speculation of such an event ) have been followed by desertion , by dismay , by disunion , by a DISASTERS ABROAD. ...
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... Speculative plunder ; contingent spoil ; future , long adjourned , uncertain booty ; pillage which must enrich a late posterity , and which possibly may not reach to posterity at all ; these , for any length of time , will never support ...
... Speculative plunder ; contingent spoil ; future , long adjourned , uncertain booty ; pillage which must enrich a late posterity , and which possibly may not reach to posterity at all ; these , for any length of time , will never support ...
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... speculation . As To the other party , the minority of to - day , possibly the majority of to - morrow , small in number , but full of talents and every species of energy , which , upon the avowed ground of being more acceptable to ...
... speculation . As To the other party , the minority of to - day , possibly the majority of to - morrow , small in number , but full of talents and every species of energy , which , upon the avowed ground of being more acceptable to ...
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