The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page ix
... England and 13,000 in France . Louis XVI is said to have translated it himself , a service which he had in calmer times rendered to some of the early chapters of Gibbon's Decline and Fall . Burke at once became estranged from his old ...
... England and 13,000 in France . Louis XVI is said to have translated it himself , a service which he had in calmer times rendered to some of the early chapters of Gibbon's Decline and Fall . Burke at once became estranged from his old ...
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... England for extending the principles of the National Assembly . Henceforward we must consider them as a kind of privileged persons ; as no inconsiderable members in the diplomatic body . This is one among the revolu- tions which have ...
... England for extending the principles of the National Assembly . Henceforward we must consider them as a kind of privileged persons ; as no inconsiderable members in the diplomatic body . This is one among the revolu- tions which have ...
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... England , by drawing us into an imitation of the conduct of the National Assembly , gave me a con- siderable degree of uneasiness . The effect of that con- duct upon the power , credit , prosperity , and tranquillity of France , became ...
... England , by drawing us into an imitation of the conduct of the National Assembly , gave me a con- siderable degree of uneasiness . The effect of that con- duct upon the power , credit , prosperity , and tranquillity of France , became ...
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... England , have ever breathed less of the spirit of moderation than this lecture in the Old Jewry . Supposing , however , that something like moderation were visible in this political sermon ; yet politics and the pulpit are terms that ...
... England , have ever breathed less of the spirit of moderation than this lecture in the Old Jewry . Supposing , however , that something like moderation were visible in this political sermon ; yet politics and the pulpit are terms that ...
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... our miserable world , without any sort or right or title to the allegiance of their people . The policy of this general doctrine , so THE CROWN OF ENGLAND 15 qualified , is evident enough 14 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
... our miserable world , without any sort or right or title to the allegiance of their people . The policy of this general doctrine , so THE CROWN OF ENGLAND 15 qualified , is evident enough 14 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
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