Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that EventPenguin Books, 1969 - 400 páginas |
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... Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789 ...
... Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789 ...
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... respects the landed noblesse of France were worse than the landed gentry of this country ; certainly in no respect more vexatious than the landholders , not noble , of their own nation . In cities the nobility had no manner of power ...
... respects the landed noblesse of France were worse than the landed gentry of this country ; certainly in no respect more vexatious than the landholders , not noble , of their own nation . In cities the nobility had no manner of power ...
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... respects they are totally changed . We do not see why we have not as good a right to refuse them their rents , as you ... respect , and now you send troops to sabre and to bayonet us into a sub- mission to fear and force , which you did ...
... respects they are totally changed . We do not see why we have not as good a right to refuse them their rents , as you ... respect , and now you send troops to sabre and to bayonet us into a sub- mission to fear and force , which you did ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 7 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 77 |
BURKES PREFATORY NOTE | 83 |
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