The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

Forest lands, plan of economical reform concerning them, ii. 300.

Foster, Justice, extracts from his Crown Cases and Discourses on
    the Crown Law, xi. 28, 123.

Fox, (C.J.) panegyrics on him, ii. 533; iii. 219.
  reluctant dissent from his opinion concerning the assumption
    of citizenship by the French army, iii. 218.
  animadversions on his commendation of the French Revolution,
    iv. 77; v. 7.
  policy of a treaty with France maintained by him, v. 26.
  his conduct contrasted with that of Mr. Pitt, v. 60.

France, from its vicinity, always an object of English vigilance
    with regard to its power or example, iii. 216. 
  Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with respect to, iv. 403.
  the liberties of Europe dependent on its being a great and
    preponderating power, iv. 455.
  character of its government before the Revolution, as shown
    by a review of the condition of the kingdom, iii. 400.
  its exterior splendor just before the Revolution, v. 236.
  state of things there during the Revolution, iv. 70.
  barbarous treatment of the king and queen at the outbreak of
    the Revolution, iii. 325.
  eloquent description of the queen as Dauphiness, and of the
    revolution in her fortunes, iii. 331.
  observations on her execution, vi. 40.
  degraded office to which the king was appointed by the Revolutionists,
    iii. 496; iv. 20.
  with his own hand pulled down the pillars of his throne, iv. 362.
  character of the king’s brothers, iv. 429.
  character of the aristocracy before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi. 39.

Franchise and office, difference between them, iv. 252.
  effect of separating property from franchise, iv. 256.

Franklin, Dr., conjectures on his visit to Paris, vi. 152.

Freedom, the great contests for it in England chiefly on the
    question of taxation, ii. 120.
  but in the ancient commonwealths chiefly on the right of
    election of magistrates, or on the balance among the
    several orders of the state, ii. 120.
  character of civil freedom, ii. 229.
  our best securities for it obtained from princes who were
    either war-like or prodigal, vi. 35.

French Affairs, Thoughts on, iv. 313.

French Directory, the character of its members, v. 448.
  their conduct towards the foreign ministers, vi. 48.

French emigrants, capable of being serviceable in restoring
    order to France, iv. 427.

French literary cabal, their plan for the destruction of
    Christianity, iii. 378.

French moneyed interest, at variance with the landed interest, iii. 376.

French Revolution, characterized as one of doctrine and theoretic
    dogma, iv. 319.
  its fundamental principle, iv. 322.

Frenchmen naturally more intense in their application than
    Englishmen, iv. 54.
  mischievous consequences of this, iv. 55.

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