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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... human events , all things were possible . That terrible and unnatural spectre which now stalked over paralysed Europe was liable to the same fate which had befallen the murdered French Monarchy . The ends of Providence were often ...
... human events , all things were possible . That terrible and unnatural spectre which now stalked over paralysed Europe was liable to the same fate which had befallen the murdered French Monarchy . The ends of Providence were often ...
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... human individual and the body politic hold good ? Limits it unquestionably has . Those passions which sway alike the state and the individual have the former under less thorough control . Fear is less paralysing : generosity and ...
... human individual and the body politic hold good ? Limits it unquestionably has . Those passions which sway alike the state and the individual have the former under less thorough control . Fear is less paralysing : generosity and ...
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... human race , than even the monstrous despotism of Turkey . It enjoyed a less advantageous position . It was a new wrong , and could plead no prescription . It had destroyed a great nation : that nation ought to be reinstated . It had ...
... human race , than even the monstrous despotism of Turkey . It enjoyed a less advantageous position . It was a new wrong , and could plead no prescription . It had destroyed a great nation : that nation ought to be reinstated . It had ...
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... human affairs , it is of no small moment to distinguish things of accident from permanent causes , and from effects that cannot be altered . It is not every irregularity in our movement that is a total deviation from our course . not ...
... human affairs , it is of no small moment to distinguish things of accident from permanent causes , and from effects that cannot be altered . It is not every irregularity in our movement that is a total deviation from our course . not ...
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... human mind . We are not yet acquainted with the laws which necessarily influence the stability of that kind of work made by that kind of agent . There is not in the physical order ( with which they do not appear to hold any assignable ...
... human mind . We are not yet acquainted with the laws which necessarily influence the stability of that kind of work made by that kind of agent . There is not in the physical order ( with which they do not appear to hold any assignable ...
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Algiers alliance allies Ambassador ambition amity argument Atheism Austrian Netherlands Author Britain British Burke's called cause civil common conquests constitution Convention Crown 8vo danger declaration dignity Directory disposition dread duty Edition effect Empire enemy England English Europe existence expence Extra fcap faction favour force France French French Revolution Government Holland honour hope hostility House Increase to 1791 interest Jacobin King kingdom Letter liberty Lord Auckland Lord Malmesbury Louis Majesty mankind manner Marquis de Montalembert means ment mercenary war mind Ministers Ministry Monarchy moral murder nation nature negotiation neighbour never noble object opinion Paris Parliament party persons political politicians politicks possession present principles Prussia publick reason Regicide Regicide Peace religion Republic Republick Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal ruin sentiments shew Sir Sydney Smith sort Sovereign Spain speculative spirit Stadtholder thing tion treaty W. W. SKEAT West Indies whilst whole