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"Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France [Letters on a Regicide Peace]"
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"Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France [Letters on a Regicide Peace]"
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Date: 1796
"The eye of the mind is dazzled and vanquished."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"An ancient writer, Plutarch, I think it is, quotes some verses on the eloquence of Pericles, who is called "the only orator that left stings in the minds of his hearers." Like his, the eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stin...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
