Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. BURKE BURKE is certainly one of the great names of the eighteenth century ; but just as he once asked of another political philosopher with a style : " Who now reads Boling- broke ...
Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. BURKE BURKE is certainly one of the great names of the eighteenth century ; but just as he once asked of another political philosopher with a style : " Who now reads Boling- broke ...
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... Burke regarded as henceforth inviolable . The lines of government might be broadened , the needs of government might be enlarged , the machinery of government might- and should - be strengthened ; but the Constitution must never be ...
... Burke regarded as henceforth inviolable . The lines of government might be broadened , the needs of government might be enlarged , the machinery of government might- and should - be strengthened ; but the Constitution must never be ...
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... Burke became a man possessed , seeking all mischief in a Paris mob , as Lear saw it in the world's daughters . Burke lived only to end the catastrophe in France and to avert a similar one in England . With amazing insight he predicted ...
... Burke became a man possessed , seeking all mischief in a Paris mob , as Lear saw it in the world's daughters . Burke lived only to end the catastrophe in France and to avert a similar one in England . With amazing insight he predicted ...
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