Burke, Select Works: Four letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide Directory of France. new ed., rev. 1904Clarendon Press, 1904 |
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... constitution of the Directory . In the midst of all these changes France had been assailed by all Europe in arms . Yet she had shown no signal of distress . Neither the ferocious contests of her leaders , nor their deadly re- venges ...
... constitution of the Directory . In the midst of all these changes France had been assailed by all Europe in arms . Yet she had shown no signal of distress . Neither the ferocious contests of her leaders , nor their deadly re- venges ...
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... constitution of its own devising . This new constitution was the Directory . The new scheme of government differed essentially from the mass of those paper - constitutions which Burke described Sieyes as keeping assorted in the pigeon ...
... constitution of its own devising . This new constitution was the Directory . The new scheme of government differed essentially from the mass of those paper - constitutions which Burke described Sieyes as keeping assorted in the pigeon ...
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... constitution , which so soon wrought its disruption , remained for the present unnoticed . Except Carnot , the men who were at its head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere ...
... constitution , which so soon wrought its disruption , remained for the present unnoticed . Except Carnot , the men who were at its head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere ...
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... constitution based on the world - famed English principle of a separation of the legislative and the executive powers . France had sown her wild oats , and was seriously beginning a sober and progressive national career . He had been of ...
... constitution based on the world - famed English principle of a separation of the legislative and the executive powers . France had sown her wild oats , and was seriously beginning a sober and progressive national career . He had been of ...
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... constitution , embracing , as far as the French politicians were able , the political principles of England , had been adopted . It had been ushered in with a solemn recan- tation of all the pernicious maxims hitherto in repute . Boissy ...
... constitution , embracing , as far as the French politicians were able , the political principles of England , had been adopted . It had been ushered in with a solemn recan- tation of all the pernicious maxims hitherto in repute . Boissy ...
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