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 xiv
... Lords ; but in both houses the disposition to war predominated . When the war actually broke out , the question was debated with redoubled ardour . But the advocates of peace were nowhere . In vain did the calm , penetrating , practical ...
... Lords ; but in both houses the disposition to war predominated . When the war actually broke out , the question was debated with redoubled ardour . But the advocates of peace were nowhere . In vain did the calm , penetrating , practical ...
Page xv
... Lord Fitz- william . Europe had made a cat's - paw of England : but it wanted that convenient instrument no longer . And Pitt's real impulse to the war was counterbalanced by the damage it wrought on commerce and manufactures at home ...
... Lord Fitz- william . Europe had made a cat's - paw of England : but it wanted that convenient instrument no longer . And Pitt's real impulse to the war was counterbalanced by the damage it wrought on commerce and manufactures at home ...
Page xx
... Lord Auckland , a noted and able adherent of the Ministry . Auckland had hitherto been one of the most strenuous supporters of the war . It was he who had penned the pregnant manifesto to the Dutch , dated from the Hague in January ...
... Lord Auckland , a noted and able adherent of the Ministry . Auckland had hitherto been one of the most strenuous supporters of the war . It was he who had penned the pregnant manifesto to the Dutch , dated from the Hague in January ...
Page xxii
... Lord , ' which had surprised the world by its fiery and bitter eloquence , indicated that he was still a prominent man in the country . Lord Auckland , though never an intimate friend , and never until lately even a political ally ...
... Lord , ' which had surprised the world by its fiery and bitter eloquence , indicated that he was still a prominent man in the country . Lord Auckland , though never an intimate friend , and never until lately even a political ally ...
Page xxiv
... Lord Auckland's pamphlet had now reached a second edition . It had been translated into French . It began with a French motto : Que faire dans une telle nuit ? Attendre le jour . The night of Revolution was now far spent : the daystar ...
... Lord Auckland's pamphlet had now reached a second edition . It had been translated into French . It began with a French motto : Que faire dans une telle nuit ? Attendre le jour . The night of Revolution was now far spent : the daystar ...
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