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... continent of Europe arming against them , they threw themselves on our juftice , and proffered us the office of mediator : when this was declined , when Mr. Burke was allowed to ftigmatize them with impunity , when the French princes ...
... continent of Europe arming against them , they threw themselves on our juftice , and proffered us the office of mediator : when this was declined , when Mr. Burke was allowed to ftigmatize them with impunity , when the French princes ...
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... continent , the monarchs of Europe were either strangers to their exiftence , or fearless of their effects . But when these principles are adopted by a nation , fituated in the midst of happy defpotic mon- archies ; by a nation whofe ...
... continent , the monarchs of Europe were either strangers to their exiftence , or fearless of their effects . But when these principles are adopted by a nation , fituated in the midst of happy defpotic mon- archies ; by a nation whofe ...
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... continent , and they will hardly overlook the danger which may refult from it , nor is it to be imagined that if the con- tinent be thoroughly fubjugated , England can infure her exemption from the yoke . Hence if it were to be fuppofed ...
... continent , and they will hardly overlook the danger which may refult from it , nor is it to be imagined that if the con- tinent be thoroughly fubjugated , England can infure her exemption from the yoke . Hence if it were to be fuppofed ...
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... continent . Then indeed the plan would present to our view a grand unity of de- fign . It would not appear as it now does , in unconnected and disjointed parts . If this be a part of the plan , it is carefully and prudently kept out of ...
... continent . Then indeed the plan would present to our view a grand unity of de- fign . It would not appear as it now does , in unconnected and disjointed parts . If this be a part of the plan , it is carefully and prudently kept out of ...
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... continent had been fo well employed by our illustrious allies , that the armies of the German potentates , and the Ruffian emprefs had been crowned with the most complete fuccefs , that French principles had been effectually eradicated ...
... continent had been fo well employed by our illustrious allies , that the armies of the German potentates , and the Ruffian emprefs had been crowned with the most complete fuccefs , that French principles had been effectually eradicated ...
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Page 6 - And thus that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world.
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Page 15 - ... evidence to prove, that either hatred to Kings, or the offer of confraternity, would have refulted from their principles ; any more than from the principles of any other republic, or even ihan from the principles of our revolution.
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Page 15 - ... be told, that the circumftances attending a revolution, are not its principles, and frequently not the rejult of the principles.