The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... hope from any thing by which they may be aggrandized . As long as those two princes are at variance , so long the liberties of Germany are safe . But if ever they should so far understand one another as to be persuaded that they have a ...
... hope from any thing by which they may be aggrandized . As long as those two princes are at variance , so long the liberties of Germany are safe . But if ever they should so far understand one another as to be persuaded that they have a ...
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... well - disposed to a re - union . As to the greater nations , they do not aim at making a direct conquest of them , but by disturbing them VOL . IV . 4 through a propagation of their principles , they hope to FRENCH AFFAIRS . 29.
... well - disposed to a re - union . As to the greater nations , they do not aim at making a direct conquest of them , but by disturbing them VOL . IV . 4 through a propagation of their principles , they hope to FRENCH AFFAIRS . 29.
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Edmund Burke. through a propagation of their principles , they hope to weak- en , as they will weaken them , and to keep them in perpetu- al alarm and agitation , and thus render all their efforts against them utterly impracticable ...
Edmund Burke. through a propagation of their principles , they hope to weak- en , as they will weaken them , and to keep them in perpetu- al alarm and agitation , and thus render all their efforts against them utterly impracticable ...
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... hope in the first place to increase his treasures and his army ; and with these common instruments of royal power they flatter him that the democracy which they help , in his name , to create , will give him but little trouble . In ...
... hope in the first place to increase his treasures and his army ; and with these common instruments of royal power they flatter him that the democracy which they help , in his name , to create , will give him but little trouble . In ...
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... hope of the empe- rour , they intend to send their ministers to every court in Eu- rope ; having sent before them such a denunciation of terrour and superiority to every nation without exception , as has no example in the diplomatick ...
... hope of the empe- rour , they intend to send their ministers to every court in Eu- rope ; having sent before them such a denunciation of terrour and superiority to every nation without exception , as has no example in the diplomatick ...
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