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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... direct consultation with the French Government , if any base of pacification could be laid down . Such an application , at such a moment , could not but prepossess the French in favour of English sincerity . It would show that in spite ...
... direct consultation with the French Government , if any base of pacification could be laid down . Such an application , at such a moment , could not but prepossess the French in favour of English sincerity . It would show that in spite ...
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... direct confession of our inferiority to France , and whilst many , very many , were ready to act upon a sense of that inferiority , a few months effected a total change in our variable minds . We emerged from the gulph of that ...
... direct confession of our inferiority to France , and whilst many , very many , were ready to act upon a sense of that inferiority , a few months effected a total change in our variable minds . We emerged from the gulph of that ...
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... direct Message from the Crown , and it's con- sequences from the two Houses of Parliament . On the part of the Regicides these declarations could not be entirely passed by without notice : but in that notice they discovered still more ...
... direct Message from the Crown , and it's con- sequences from the two Houses of Parliament . On the part of the Regicides these declarations could not be entirely passed by without notice : but in that notice they discovered still more ...
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... direct avowal of their despotism and ambition . We know that their declared resolution had been to surrender no object belonging to France previous to the war . They had resolved , that the Republick was entire , and must remain so . As ...
... direct avowal of their despotism and ambition . We know that their declared resolution had been to surrender no object belonging to France previous to the war . They had resolved , that the Republick was entire , and must remain so . As ...
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... direct negative to . all treaty , but is a rejection of every principle upon which 6 1 This Court has seen , with regret , how far the tone and spirit of that answer , the nature and extent of the demands which it contains , and the ...
... direct negative to . all treaty , but is a rejection of every principle upon which 6 1 This Court has seen , with regret , how far the tone and spirit of that answer , the nature and extent of the demands which it contains , and the ...
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