The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 6Little, Brown, 1881 |
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... empire , either in posses- sion or dependence , new barriers , many frontier places of strength , a large sea - coast , and many sea - ports . " He ought to have stated it , that they would annex to their territory a country about a ...
... empire , either in posses- sion or dependence , new barriers , many frontier places of strength , a large sea - coast , and many sea - ports . " He ought to have stated it , that they would annex to their territory a country about a ...
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... empire , whatever they may acquire , or whomsoever they might destroy , he raises a doubt " whether France will not be ruined by retaining these conquests , and whether she will not wholly lose that preponderance which she has held in ...
... empire , whatever they may acquire , or whomsoever they might destroy , he raises a doubt " whether France will not be ruined by retaining these conquests , and whether she will not wholly lose that preponderance which she has held in ...
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... empire of Regicide . " These conquests eventually will be the cause of her destruc- tion . " So that they who hate the cause of usurpation , and dread the power of France under any form , are to wish her to be a conqueror , in order to ...
... empire of Regicide . " These conquests eventually will be the cause of her destruc- tion . " So that they who hate the cause of usurpation , and dread the power of France under any form , are to wish her to be a conqueror , in order to ...
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... empire of Charles the Fifth and of his successor . It might be so of others . But so compact a body of empire , so fitted in all the parts for mutual support , with a frontier by Nature and Art so impen- etrable , with such facility of ...
... empire of Charles the Fifth and of his successor . It might be so of others . But so compact a body of empire , so fitted in all the parts for mutual support , with a frontier by Nature and Art so impen- etrable , with such facility of ...
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... empire dictated by the despotism of Regicide to my own country , and to the lawful sovereigns of the Christian world . I trust I shall hardly be told , in palliation of this shameful system of politics , that the author express- es his ...
... empire dictated by the despotism of Regicide to my own country , and to the lawful sovereigns of the Christian world . I trust I shall hardly be told , in palliation of this shameful system of politics , that the author express- es his ...
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act of Parliament affairs amity appear BEACONSFIELD Bishop of London Burke Catholics cause circumstances civil colonies confess consider Constitution crimes crown danger dear declaration Dissenters EDMUND BURKE effect empire enacted enemies England English ernment Europe evil execution faction favor force France fraternity friends give honor House of Commons interest Ireland Irish Jacobins justice justices of peace king kingdom letter liberty Lord Lord Auckland Lord North Lord Rockingham Majesty Majesty's manner matter means measure ment mind ministers mode monarchy murder nation nature never noble object obliged offence opinion Parliament party peace persons political present principles Protestant Protestant ascendency reason regard Regicide religion Republic sans-culotte seems sentiments sort sovereign Spain speculative spirit suffer sure things Thomas Paine thought tion treaty West Indies whilst whole wholly wish