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
... head was full of modern ideas . Joseph the Second was a man of progress and enlightenment . Relying on the alliance with France which had been cemented by the marriage of the French king with an Austrian princess , he had ordered the ...
... head was full of modern ideas . Joseph the Second was a man of progress and enlightenment . Relying on the alliance with France which had been cemented by the marriage of the French king with an Austrian princess , he had ordered the ...
Page xi
... head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of Europe , we shall , by our mistakes , break up a great design into a thousand little selfish quarrels . The enemy will triumph , and we shall sit down under the terms of ...
... head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of Europe , we shall , by our mistakes , break up a great design into a thousand little selfish quarrels . The enemy will triumph , and we shall sit down under the terms of ...
Page xx
... head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention , inheriting in all fulness its reckless policy , and its infamous principles . One fact ...
... head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention , inheriting in all fulness its reckless policy , and its infamous principles . One fact ...
Page xxxii
... heads of Europe patiently waiting as suitors in the antechamber of the Luxembourg , and among the rest , the proud monarchy of Britain bidding for the mercy of the regicide tyrants . He next states the result of the Basle negoti- ations ...
... heads of Europe patiently waiting as suitors in the antechamber of the Luxembourg , and among the rest , the proud monarchy of Britain bidding for the mercy of the regicide tyrants . He next states the result of the Basle negoti- ations ...
Page xxxiii
... head , bear to the English nation ? Burke was ready with an answer : and his answer , based as it was on data which he thought sufficient , is a curious and valuable piece of statistics . He estimated the number of Englishmen and ...
... head , bear to the English nation ? Burke was ready with an answer : and his answer , based as it was on data which he thought sufficient , is a curious and valuable piece of statistics . He estimated the number of Englishmen and ...
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