The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... dangerous extremities . In this situation of things , the same regard to a neighbouring sovereign living in friendship with Great Britain , the same spirit of good - will to the kingdom of France , the same regard to the general ...
... dangerous extremities . In this situation of things , the same regard to a neighbouring sovereign living in friendship with Great Britain , the same spirit of good - will to the kingdom of France , the same regard to the general ...
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... danger ( as apparently they do not ) in the light in which it presents itself so naturally , it is because they are powers too great to have a social interest . That sort of in- terest belongs only to those , whose state of weak- ness ...
... danger ( as apparently they do not ) in the light in which it presents itself so naturally , it is because they are powers too great to have a social interest . That sort of in- terest belongs only to those , whose state of weak- ness ...
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... dangerous in the example , even exhausted as France then was by the preceding war , and under a lazy and unenterprising prince , she would have at every risk taken an active part in this business . But a languor with regard to so remote ...
... dangerous in the example , even exhausted as France then was by the preceding war , and under a lazy and unenterprising prince , she would have at every risk taken an active part in this business . But a languor with regard to so remote ...
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... danger of the lesser princes , an occasion , as protectors or enemies , of connecting their territories to one or the other of the two great German powers . They do not take into consideration that the means which they encou- rage , as ...
... danger of the lesser princes , an occasion , as protectors or enemies , of connecting their territories to one or the other of the two great German powers . They do not take into consideration that the means which they encou- rage , as ...
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... danger al- together so imminent there as in Germany and Switzerland . Savoy I know that the French con- sider as in a very hopeful way , and I believe not at Lombardy . all without reason . They view it as an old mem- ber of the kingdom ...
... danger al- together so imminent there as in Germany and Switzerland . Savoy I know that the French con- sider as in a very hopeful way , and I believe not at Lombardy . all without reason . They view it as an old mem- ber of the kingdom ...
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