The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Peace was in its progress through the press when the author died . About one half of it was actually revised in print by himself , though not in the exact order of the pages as they now stand . He enlarged his first X ADVERTISEMENT .
... Peace was in its progress through the press when the author died . About one half of it was actually revised in print by himself , though not in the exact order of the pages as they now stand . He enlarged his first X ADVERTISEMENT .
Page xii
... for the continuance of the war was understood to have been the principal objection urged against the two former Letters on the Proposals for Peace . In performing with reverential diffidence this duty xii ADVERTISEMENT .
... for the continuance of the war was understood to have been the principal objection urged against the two former Letters on the Proposals for Peace . In performing with reverential diffidence this duty xii ADVERTISEMENT .
Page xiii
Edmund Burke. for Peace . In performing with reverential diffidence this duty of friendship , care has been taken not to attribute to Mr. Burke any sentiment which is not most explicitly known , from repeated conversations , and from ...
Edmund Burke. for Peace . In performing with reverential diffidence this duty of friendship , care has been taken not to attribute to Mr. Burke any sentiment which is not most explicitly known , from repeated conversations , and from ...
Page xiv
... peace should not fail to be met with an earnest desire to give it the fullest and speediest effect . In truth , the answer , which is full of spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when ...
... peace should not fail to be met with an earnest desire to give it the fullest and speediest effect . In truth , the answer , which is full of spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when ...
Page 15
... peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation ou the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ...
... peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation ou the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ...
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