The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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... FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE are some corrections in this edition , which tend to render the sense less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I ...
... FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE are some corrections in this edition , which tend to render the sense less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I ...
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... French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period of that event , unless they choose to imitate any of its acts , or to consolidate any principles of that Revolution with their ...
... French Revolution can have no connexion with the objects of any parties in England formed before the period of that event , unless they choose to imitate any of its acts , or to consolidate any principles of that Revolution with their ...
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... French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they ...
... French usurpation . That they who endeavoured madly to compare them , were by no means making the comparison of one good system with another good system , which varied only in local and circumstantial differences ; much less , that they ...
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... French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very advan- tageous in every case , and under every circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their ...
... French Revolution , and who think a free discussion so very advan- tageous in every case , and under every circumstance , ought not , in my opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their ...
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... French government was so bad , that nothing worse in the infinite devices of men could come in its place . They who have brought France to its present condition ought to prove also , by something better than prattling about the Bastile ...
... French government was so bad , that nothing worse in the infinite devices of men could come in its place . They who have brought France to its present condition ought to prove also , by something better than prattling about the Bastile ...
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