The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... Revolution in France , 1790 PAGE vii - xiii A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly , 1791 Thoughts on French Affairs , 1791 . 1 • 277 • 323 765 PREFACE THE present volume contains publications of Burke relating entirely.
... Revolution in France , 1790 PAGE vii - xiii A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly , 1791 Thoughts on French Affairs , 1791 . 1 • 277 • 323 765 PREFACE THE present volume contains publications of Burke relating entirely.
Page vii
... French Affairs , readers are constantly forced to feel with Hazlitt that , if in arriving at one error he discovered a hundred truths , they would con- sider themselves a hundred times more indebted to him than if in stumbling upon what ...
... French Affairs , readers are constantly forced to feel with Hazlitt that , if in arriving at one error he discovered a hundred truths , they would con- sider themselves a hundred times more indebted to him than if in stumbling upon what ...
Page ix
... French affairs , however , though happily not as regards all others , we lose Burke as the champion of distressed nationalities ; no longer do we hear of ' presumptions in favour of the people , ' or of the lack of ability to draw up ...
... French affairs , however , though happily not as regards all others , we lose Burke as the champion of distressed nationalities ; no longer do we hear of ' presumptions in favour of the people , ' or of the lack of ability to draw up ...
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... French Revolution must surely be gained from an attentive consideration of the evils of the old government ; when these are well understood- and when the extent and universality of the oppression under which the people groaned ...
... French Revolution must surely be gained from an attentive consideration of the evils of the old government ; when these are well understood- and when the extent and universality of the oppression under which the people groaned ...
Page xi
... French constitution certainly did not remain where it was , but indeed passed through great varieties of untried being ' which would have surprised even him . But the most amazing prophecy of all was surely that where Burke points to a ...
... French constitution certainly did not remain where it was , but indeed passed through great varieties of untried being ' which would have surprised even him . But the most amazing prophecy of all was surely that where Burke points to a ...
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