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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... existence a great variety of fortune . At the very moment when some of them seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster , they have suddenly emerged . They have begun a new course , and opened a new reckoning ; and ...
... existence a great variety of fortune . At the very moment when some of them seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster , they have suddenly emerged . They have begun a new course , and opened a new reckoning ; and ...
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... existence . But a great state is too much envied , too much dreaded , to find safety in humiliation . To be secure , it must be respected . Power , and eminence , and consideration , are things not to be begged . They must be commanded ...
... existence . But a great state is too much envied , too much dreaded , to find safety in humiliation . To be secure , it must be respected . Power , and eminence , and consideration , are things not to be begged . They must be commanded ...
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... existence rather than to abandon it's objects , must have an infinite advantage over that which is resolved to yield rather than to carry it's resistance beyond a certain point . Humanly speaking , that people which bounds it's efforts ...
... existence rather than to abandon it's objects , must have an infinite advantage over that which is resolved to yield rather than to carry it's resistance beyond a certain point . Humanly speaking , that people which bounds it's efforts ...
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... existence in all it's extent ) they would not endure to hear of a peace that led to the ruin of every thing for which peace is dear to them . How- ever , the desire of peace is essentially the weak side of that kind of men . All men ...
... existence in all it's extent ) they would not endure to hear of a peace that led to the ruin of every thing for which peace is dear to them . How- ever , the desire of peace is essentially the weak side of that kind of men . All men ...
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... existence of that opinion as a fact , from whence you may draw such an inference as you think properly arises from it . It is for us at present to recollect what we have been ; and to consider what , if we please , we may be still . At ...
... existence of that opinion as a fact , from whence you may draw such an inference as you think properly arises from it . It is for us at present to recollect what we have been ; and to consider what , if we please , we may be still . At ...
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