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
... effect in the Commons . The nation was pledged to the war ; and for a while it prosecuted the war with vigour . In these early debates on the war Burke had brought the Ministry an important accession of strength . When he seceded from ...
... effect in the Commons . The nation was pledged to the war ; and for a while it prosecuted the war with vigour . In these early debates on the war Burke had brought the Ministry an important accession of strength . When he seceded from ...
Page xxii
... effect . Briefly , if the Directory stood its ground , and wished for peace , Mr. Pitt would make peace with the Directory . Mr. Pitt spoke to the same effect in the Debate on the Address . Five months before , Mr. Pitt had declared his ...
... effect . Briefly , if the Directory stood its ground , and wished for peace , Mr. Pitt would make peace with the Directory . Mr. Pitt spoke to the same effect in the Debate on the Address . Five months before , Mr. Pitt had declared his ...
Page xxix
... effect a junction with Moreau and Jourdan , and pour the whole forces of the French Republic on Vienna . Fortune steadily attended the French arms in Italy : and nothing in the world seemed more unlikely than defeat in Germany . Once ...
... effect a junction with Moreau and Jourdan , and pour the whole forces of the French Republic on Vienna . Fortune steadily attended the French arms in Italy : and nothing in the world seemed more unlikely than defeat in Germany . Once ...
Page xxx
... effect which might have been wrought in the French mind by Jourdan's disaster , it had been more than counteracted by the extraordinary advance of the French in their second line of attack on Austria . In Italy a campaign more rapid and ...
... effect which might have been wrought in the French mind by Jourdan's disaster , it had been more than counteracted by the extraordinary advance of the French in their second line of attack on Austria . In Italy a campaign more rapid and ...
Page xxxv
... effect upon England of a Jacobin Peace concludes the Fourth Letter . In such a spirit he had astonished the House by flinging the Birmingham dagger on the floor . Very different is that calm analysis of the French Republic which ...
... effect upon England of a Jacobin Peace concludes the Fourth Letter . In such a spirit he had astonished the House by flinging the Birmingham dagger on the floor . Very different is that calm analysis of the French Republic which ...
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