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 viii
... Parisian model sprang up all over Great Britain . Some thought a civil war , in which France would be the ally of a revolutionary element , to be at hand . And even thus early the brigand - like character of the New France revealed ...
... Parisian model sprang up all over Great Britain . Some thought a civil war , in which France would be the ally of a revolutionary element , to be at hand . And even thus early the brigand - like character of the New France revealed ...
Page xi
... Paris should be organized , and it should recognize the Regent according to the ancient laws of the kingdom . The existing powers in France ought to be con- sidered as outlawed . ' France , ' he wrote , ' is out of herself . The moral ...
... Paris should be organized , and it should recognize the Regent according to the ancient laws of the kingdom . The existing powers in France ought to be con- sidered as outlawed . ' France , ' he wrote , ' is out of herself . The moral ...
Page xiii
... Paris , to treat with the Convention . That motion , which was seconded by Grey , involved the entire question now at stake . Speaking on that motion in his most eloquent mood , and animating the majority by his usual arguments for an ...
... Paris , to treat with the Convention . That motion , which was seconded by Grey , involved the entire question now at stake . Speaking on that motion in his most eloquent mood , and animating the majority by his usual arguments for an ...
Page xx
... Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention , inheriting in all fulness its reckless policy , and its infamous principles . One fact amply justified him in extending to the ...
... Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention , inheriting in all fulness its reckless policy , and its infamous principles . One fact amply justified him in extending to the ...
Page xxviii
... Paris in 1763 , it had been triumphantly affirmed . Even at the peace of 1783 , when England retired in defeat from an inglorious and disastrous contest , it had not been assailed . Advocates of peace in England were thus confronted by ...
... Paris in 1763 , it had been triumphantly affirmed . Even at the peace of 1783 , when England retired in defeat from an inglorious and disastrous contest , it had not been assailed . Advocates of peace in England were thus confronted by ...
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