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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... there was none : they had not even united plans for the Flemish campaign . Of the French royalists they made no account whatever . They sometimes sought advice from INTRODUCTION . xi the worthless emigrants : but they never X INTRODUCTION .
... there was none : they had not even united plans for the Flemish campaign . Of the French royalists they made no account whatever . They sometimes sought advice from INTRODUCTION . xi the worthless emigrants : but they never X INTRODUCTION .
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Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. INTRODUCTION . xi the worthless emigrants : but they never sought by any practical means to gain as allies the strong anti - Revolutionary elements which existed within France . Early in the history of the ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. INTRODUCTION . xi the worthless emigrants : but they never sought by any practical means to gain as allies the strong anti - Revolutionary elements which existed within France . Early in the history of the ...
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... never I loved the war . He never bent to it the whole 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 ...
... never I loved the war . He never bent to it the whole 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 ...
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... not disproportionately predominate . For above a century the maintenance of this principle had been a primary maxim of English politics . England had never even sanctioned a negotiation into which entered any INTRODUCTION, ...
... not disproportionately predominate . For above a century the maintenance of this principle had been a primary maxim of English politics . England had never even sanctioned a negotiation into which entered any INTRODUCTION, ...
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Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. had never even sanctioned a negotiation into which entered any contemplation of its surrender . For that principle William had organised the Grand Alliance : for that principle the war begun by him had ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. had never even sanctioned a negotiation into which entered any contemplation of its surrender . For that principle William had organised the Grand Alliance : for that principle the war begun by him had ...
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