The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... France . I shall ever accept any mark of approbation attended with instruction with more pleasure than general and un- qualified praises . The latter can serve only to flatter our vanity ; the former , whilst it encourages us to proceed ...
... France . I shall ever accept any mark of approbation attended with instruction with more pleasure than general and un- qualified praises . The latter can serve only to flatter our vanity ; the former , whilst it encourages us to proceed ...
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... France too , that the reigning usurp- ers would not have carried their tyranny to such de- structive lengths , if they had not been stimulated and provoked to it by the acrimony of your opposi- tion . There is a dilemma to which every ...
... France too , that the reigning usurp- ers would not have carried their tyranny to such de- structive lengths , if they had not been stimulated and provoked to it by the acrimony of your opposi- tion . There is a dilemma to which every ...
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... France , to fill the new episcopal thrones : men well versed in swear- ing ; and who will scruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformers can devise . In matters so ridiculous it is hard to be grave . On a view of ...
... France , to fill the new episcopal thrones : men well versed in swear- ing ; and who will scruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformers can devise . In matters so ridiculous it is hard to be grave . On a view of ...
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... France to swallow up the others . They ought not now , in my opinion , to suffer all the monarchies and commonwealths to be swallowed up in the gulf of this polluted anarchy . They may be tolerably safe at pres- ent , because the ...
... France to swallow up the others . They ought not now , in my opinion , to suffer all the monarchies and commonwealths to be swallowed up in the gulf of this polluted anarchy . They may be tolerably safe at pres- ent , because the ...
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... France to be as much an object both of policy and compassion as the Grand Seignior or his states . I do not conceive that the total anni- hilation of France ( if that could be effected ) is a desirable thing to Europe , or even to this ...
... France to be as much an object both of policy and compassion as the Grand Seignior or his states . I do not conceive that the total anni- hilation of France ( if that could be effected ) is a desirable thing to Europe , or even to this ...
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