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 ix
... matter to the desultory irruption of the preceding summer . Condé and Valenciennes were invested : and the capture of Condé was the first - fruits of the invasion . On the 28th of July , 1793 , Valenciennes was taken by the Duke of York ...
... matter to the desultory irruption of the preceding summer . Condé and Valenciennes were invested : and the capture of Condé was the first - fruits of the invasion . On the 28th of July , 1793 , Valenciennes was taken by the Duke of York ...
Page xi
... 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 the 1 Remarks ...
... 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 the 1 Remarks ...
Page xxi
... matter of indifference . He had swayed public opinion towards the war : he had strenuously supported it : and though now broken by sorrow and disease , no longer in Parlia- ment , and living in strict retirement at Beaconsfield , he had ...
... matter of indifference . He had swayed public opinion towards the war : he had strenuously supported it : and though now broken by sorrow and disease , no longer in Parlia- ment , and living in strict retirement at Beaconsfield , he had ...
Page xlv
... matter not only of belief , but of sentiment . England was proudly conscious of being the supreme court of appeal in the transcendent lawsuits of Europe . Moral causes alone could put her mighty forces in motion : and these moral causes ...
... matter not only of belief , but of sentiment . England was proudly conscious of being the supreme court of appeal in the transcendent lawsuits of Europe . Moral causes alone could put her mighty forces in motion : and these moral causes ...
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... matter to England of value inestimable ) was then powerful , was then independent , and though greatly endangered , was then full of energy and spirit . But the great resource of Europe was in England . Not in a sort of England detached ...
... matter to England of value inestimable ) was then powerful , was then independent , and though greatly endangered , was then full of energy and spirit . But the great resource of Europe was in England . Not in a sort of England detached ...
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