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 vi
... followed by the Thermidorian reaction , and the White Terror : and the Conven- tion , rapidly becoming more and more odious to the people , had at length dissolved , bequeathing to France as the result of its labours the constitution of ...
... followed by the Thermidorian reaction , and the White Terror : and the Conven- tion , rapidly becoming more and more odious to the people , had at length dissolved , bequeathing to France as the result of its labours the constitution of ...
Page viii
... followed . Before the summer of 1793 Austria , Prussia , England , Holland , Russia , Spain , and all Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a Coalition France might ...
... followed . Before the summer of 1793 Austria , Prussia , England , Holland , Russia , Spain , and all Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a Coalition France might ...
Page xi
... followed as a matter of course upon its defeat . A third - rate Italian State led the way . Tuscany is by nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of ...
... followed as a matter of course upon its defeat . A third - rate Italian State led the way . Tuscany is by nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of ...
Page xxx
... followed his example . Bonaparte was in a week or two in possession of Milan , and over- running the whole of Lombardy . Before the end of May , he had passed the Mincio , forcing the Austrians partly into Mantua and partly into the ...
... followed his example . Bonaparte was in a week or two in possession of Milan , and over- running the whole of Lombardy . Before the end of May , he had passed the Mincio , forcing the Austrians partly into Mantua and partly into the ...
Page xlvii
... followed by a Bloody Assize . Was the war with France really justifiable on these grounds ? British public opinion soon cooled down to the conviction that it was not : and these ' second thoughts ' are confirmed by the verdict of ...
... followed by a Bloody Assize . Was the war with France really justifiable on these grounds ? British public opinion soon cooled down to the conviction that it was not : and these ' second thoughts ' are confirmed by the verdict of ...
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