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Page 60
Principle , method , regularity , economy , frugality , justice to individuals , and
care of the people , are the resources with which France makes war upon Great
Britain . God avert the omen ! But if we should see any genius in war and politics
...
Principle , method , regularity , economy , frugality , justice to individuals , and
care of the people , are the resources with which France makes war upon Great
Britain . God avert the omen ! But if we should see any genius in war and politics
...
Page 61
I am not in dread of the vast armies of France : I am not in dread of the gallant
spirit of its brave and numerous nobility : I am not alarmed even at the great navy
which has been so miraculously created . All these things Louis the Fourteenth
had ...
I am not in dread of the vast armies of France : I am not in dread of the gallant
spirit of its brave and numerous nobility : I am not alarmed even at the great navy
which has been so miraculously created . All these things Louis the Fourteenth
had ...
Page 62
Is then the mere opinion and appearance of frugality and good management of
such use to France , and is the substance to be so mischievous to England ? Is
the very constitution of nature so altered by a sea of twenty miles , that economy ...
Is then the mere opinion and appearance of frugality and good management of
such use to France , and is the substance to be so mischievous to England ? Is
the very constitution of nature so altered by a sea of twenty miles , that economy ...
Page 63
It happens , however , that the people in their address to us , use almost word for
word the same terms as the king of France uses in addressing himself to his
people , and it differs only , as it falls short of the French king ' s idea of what is
due to ...
It happens , however , that the people in their address to us , use almost word for
word the same terms as the king of France uses in addressing himself to his
people , and it differs only , as it falls short of the French king ' s idea of what is
due to ...
Page 133
I , who saw in every American victory ( for you have had a long series of these
misfortunes ) the germ and seed of the naval power of France and Spain , which
all our heat and warmth against America was only hatching into life , - I should
not ...
I , who saw in every American victory ( for you have had a long series of these
misfortunes ) the germ and seed of the naval power of France and Spain , which
all our heat and warmth against America was only hatching into life , - I should
not ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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