The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Europe to be secure , whilst there is established in the very centre of it a state ( if so it may be called ) founded on principles of an- archy , and which is in reality a college of armed fanatics , for the propagation of the ...
... Europe to be secure , whilst there is established in the very centre of it a state ( if so it may be called ) founded on principles of an- archy , and which is in reality a college of armed fanatics , for the propagation of the ...
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... Europe considered as Most Christian , ) who , after an intermission of one hundred and sev- enty - five years , had called together the States of his kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his ...
... Europe considered as Most Christian , ) who , after an intermission of one hundred and sev- enty - five years , had called together the States of his kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his ...
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... Europe , or even to this its rival nation . Provident patriots did not think it good for Rome that even Carthage should be quite destroyed ; and he was a wise Greek , wise for the general Gre- cian interests , as well as a brave ...
... Europe , or even to this its rival nation . Provident patriots did not think it good for Rome that even Carthage should be quite destroyed ; and he was a wise Greek , wise for the general Gre- cian interests , as well as a brave ...
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... Europe , will destroy also the mode of civilized war , which , more than anything else , has distinguished the Chris- tian world . Such is the approaching golden age which the Virgil of your Assembly has sung to his Pollios ! * In such ...
... Europe , will destroy also the mode of civilized war , which , more than anything else , has distinguished the Chris- tian world . Such is the approaching golden age which the Virgil of your Assembly has sung to his Pollios ! * In such ...
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... Europe ? I am constantly of opinion that your States , in three orders , on the footing on which they stood in 1614 , were capable of being brought into a proper and harmonious combination with royal authority . This constitution by ...
... Europe ? I am constantly of opinion that your States , in three orders , on the footing on which they stood in 1614 , were capable of being brought into a proper and harmonious combination with royal authority . This constitution by ...
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