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 xi
... its dissolution 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 ...
... its dissolution 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 ...
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... its diplomatists , and rearranged the relations of its peoples by the standard of their own rapacity , or convenience , or caprice . These were the most strenuous supporters of the war . The original following of Mr. Pitt was less in ...
... its diplomatists , and rearranged the relations of its peoples by the standard of their own rapacity , or convenience , or caprice . These were the most strenuous supporters of the war . The original following of Mr. Pitt was less in ...
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... its commerce and its colonies . Tidings of the capture of islands in the West Indies , and comptoirs in the East , were more welcome to his ear than tidings of the occupa- tion of Toulon and the beleaguering of Dunkirk . Beyond seas ...
... its commerce and its colonies . Tidings of the capture of islands in the West Indies , and comptoirs in the East , were more welcome to his ear than tidings of the occupa- tion of Toulon and the beleaguering of Dunkirk . Beyond seas ...
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... its follies , all its crimes , and all its glories , was gone . It had not passed away in the throes of revolution . It had quietly expired in a time of comparative domestic tranquillity , bequeathing its power and its prestige , purged ...
... its follies , all its crimes , and all its glories , was gone . It had not passed away in the throes of revolution . It had quietly expired in a time of comparative domestic tranquillity , bequeathing its power and its prestige , purged ...
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... its disruption , remained for the present unnoticed . Except Carnot , the men who were at its head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention ...
... its disruption , remained for the present unnoticed . Except Carnot , the men who were at its head were little known beyond the circle of Parisian politicians . For Burke , the Direc- tory was a mere Committee of the Regicide Convention ...
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