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
... forces of the Armed Coalition were on the soil of France . The capture of Longwy , followed by the invasion of Champagne , acted on France like an electric stroke . Feeble and momentary in itself , it set in motion other forces of far ...
... forces of the Armed Coalition were on the soil of France . The capture of Longwy , followed by the invasion of Champagne , acted on France like an electric stroke . Feeble and momentary in itself , it set in motion other forces of far ...
Page xiii
... force of the enraged French nation to her sole antagonist across the Channel . England had been slow to join the Coalition : she was now the only member of it who was in earnest . ' British in- terests , ' as the phrase now goes , would ...
... force of the enraged French nation to her sole antagonist across the Channel . England had been slow to join the Coalition : she was now the only member of it who was in earnest . ' British in- terests , ' as the phrase now goes , would ...
Page xiv
... force of his powerful mind . Conceiving the war to be mainly the business of those great military powers who had been robbed of their territories by France , he thought his part done , so far as con- cerned Europe , when he had ...
... force of his powerful mind . Conceiving the war to be mainly the business of those great military powers who had been robbed of their territories by France , he thought his part done , so far as con- cerned Europe , when he had ...
Page xxix
... force the passes of the Tyrol , 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 ...
... force the passes of the Tyrol , 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 ...
Page xxx
... force of forty thousand picked French troops , well inured to a hot climate by service against Spain in the Pyrenees , was set free for further operations by the peace which had been made by Godoy . Early in the year these troops were ...
... force of forty thousand picked French troops , well inured to a hot climate by service against Spain in the Pyrenees , was set free for further operations by the peace which had been made by Godoy . Early in the year these troops were ...
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