The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5F. & J. Rivington, 1852 - Great Britain |
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... dreadful yoke ; but they do want ( not manifestoes , which they have had even to surfeit , but ) real protec- tion , force , and succour . The disputes and questions of men at their ease , do not at all 1 Some accounts make them five ...
... dreadful yoke ; but they do want ( not manifestoes , which they have had even to surfeit , but ) real protec- tion , force , and succour . The disputes and questions of men at their ease , do not at all 1 Some accounts make them five ...
Page 39
... dreadful void . Incapable of innoxious repose , or honourable action , or wise specu- lation , in the lurking holes of a foreign land , into which ( in a com- mon ruin ) they are driven to hide their heads amongst the innocent victims ...
... dreadful void . Incapable of innoxious repose , or honourable action , or wise specu- lation , in the lurking holes of a foreign land , into which ( in a com- mon ruin ) they are driven to hide their heads amongst the innocent victims ...
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... dreadful and portentous energy , restrained by no consideration of God or man , that is always vigilant , always on the attack , that allows itself no repose , and suffers none to rest an hour with impunity ; if we meet this energy with ...
... dreadful and portentous energy , restrained by no consideration of God or man , that is always vigilant , always on the attack , that allows itself no repose , and suffers none to rest an hour with impunity ; if we meet this energy with ...
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... dreadful contest . It is a religious war . It includes in its object undoubtedly every other interest of society as well as this ; but this is the principal and leading feature . It is through this destruction of religion that our ...
... dreadful contest . It is a religious war . It includes in its object undoubtedly every other interest of society as well as this ; but this is the principal and leading feature . It is through this destruction of religion that our ...
Page 49
... taken in this one relation , France is not equally dreadful to all other states . On the contrary , my clear opinion is , VOL . V. E that the liberties of Europe cannot possibly be preserved but POLICY OF THE ALLIES . 49.
... taken in this one relation , France is not equally dreadful to all other states . On the contrary , my clear opinion is , VOL . V. E that the liberties of Europe cannot possibly be preserved but POLICY OF THE ALLIES . 49.
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