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 vii
... enemy , were obvious . The single fight of Gemappe laid Austrian Flanders prostrate . Mons , Tournay , Nieuport , Ostend , Bruges , and finally Brussels itself , threw open their gates to Dumouriez and Miranda : and the Convention ...
... enemy , were obvious . The single fight of Gemappe laid Austrian Flanders prostrate . Mons , Tournay , Nieuport , Ostend , Bruges , and finally Brussels itself , threw open their gates to Dumouriez and Miranda : and the Convention ...
Page x
... enemy , in a far stronger position than the beginning . The fortunes of France steadily rose from the hour when the Duke of York was forced to raise the siege of Dunkirk . During the winter , the army in Flanders was reinforced to the ...
... enemy , in a far stronger position than the beginning . The fortunes of France steadily rose from the hour when the Duke of York was forced to raise the siege of Dunkirk . During the winter , the army in Flanders was reinforced to the ...
Page xi
... enemy will triumph , and we shall sit down under the terms of unsafe and dependent peace , weakened , mortified , and disgraced , whilst all Europe , England included , is left open and defenceless on every part , to Jacobin principles ...
... enemy will triumph , and we shall sit down under the terms of unsafe and dependent peace , weakened , mortified , and disgraced , whilst all Europe , England included , is left open and defenceless on every part , to Jacobin principles ...
Page xxxii
... enemy a thousandfold more cruel and hateful ? In an exordium of greater length than he commonly allowed himself , before reaching the main question of argument , but turn- ing with such life and swiftness to almost every element con ...
... enemy a thousandfold more cruel and hateful ? In an exordium of greater length than he commonly allowed himself , before reaching the main question of argument , but turn- ing with such life and swiftness to almost every element con ...
Page xxxv
... enemy . Macaulay , in a clever jeu d'esprit , has described Burke as a merry , good- natured Irishman , who liked to go out at nights to a children's party carrying a magic lantern , with which he alternately amused and terrified them ...
... enemy . Macaulay , in a clever jeu d'esprit , has described Burke as a merry , good- natured Irishman , who liked to go out at nights to a children's party carrying a magic lantern , with which he alternately amused and terrified them ...
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