Burke, Select Works: Four letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. New ed. 1892Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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Page v
... French affairs . It witnessed the establishment of the Directory . Five years had now passed since Burke had published his famous denunciation of the French Revolution ; and those five years had witnessed portents and convulsions ...
... French affairs . It witnessed the establishment of the Directory . Five years had now passed since Burke had published his famous denunciation of the French Revolution ; and those five years had witnessed portents and convulsions ...
Page viii
... French re- volutionists and English sympathizers . English representatives presented themselves in the Convention : revolutionary clubs on the Parisian model sprang up all over Great Britain . Some thought a civil war , in which France ...
... French re- volutionists and English sympathizers . English representatives presented themselves in the Convention : revolutionary clubs on the Parisian model sprang up all over Great Britain . Some thought a civil war , in which France ...
Page ix
... French . At Neerwinden the French were totally defeated : and before the end of March they were driven to their own soil . The Armed Coalition now seemed to have its way made plain before its face . The second invasion of France was a ...
... French . At Neerwinden the French were totally defeated : and before the end of March they were driven to their own soil . The Armed Coalition now seemed to have its way made plain before its face . The second invasion of France was a ...
Page x
... French sympathizers at once took fresh heart : and through- out Holland the approach of the French produced a powerful revival of the republican party . Everywhere the Revolution reproduced itself . Province after province of the United ...
... French sympathizers at once took fresh heart : and through- out Holland the approach of the French produced a powerful revival of the republican party . Everywhere the Revolution reproduced itself . Province after province of the United ...
Page xi
... French energy . Instead of being at the head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of Europe , we shall , by our mistakes , break up a great design into a thousand little selfish quarrels . The enemy will triumph ...
... French energy . Instead of being at the head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of Europe , we shall , by our mistakes , break up a great design into a thousand little selfish quarrels . The enemy will triumph ...
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