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
... possessions beyond seas . Disaster after disaster befell the armies of the Revolution . The Austrian generals , better skilled in tactics and in command of veteran soldiers , quickly rescued Flanders from the undisciplined levies of the ...
... possessions beyond seas . Disaster after disaster befell the armies of the Revolution . The Austrian generals , better skilled in tactics and in command of veteran soldiers , quickly rescued Flanders from the undisciplined levies of the ...
Page xii
... possessions on the left bank of the Rhine : for these she was to be indem- nified out of the rich fund of the ... possession , and indeed for their size the INTRODUCTION . xiii most populous and flourishing provinces of Europe xii ...
... possessions on the left bank of the Rhine : for these she was to be indem- nified out of the rich fund of the ... possession , and indeed for their size the INTRODUCTION . xiii most populous and flourishing provinces of Europe xii ...
Page xv
... possessions whence they had drawn the fatal wealth which had demoralized and blotted them out from the powers of Europe ... possession of the French sugar islands . He remembered the days , thirty years ago , when his father had annexed ...
... possessions whence they had drawn the fatal wealth which had demoralized and blotted them out from the powers of Europe ... possession of the French sugar islands . He remembered the days , thirty years ago , when his father had annexed ...
Page xxx
... possession of Milan , and over- running the whole of Lombardy . Before the end of May , he had passed the Mincio , forcing the Austrians partly into Mantua and partly into the uplands . Not a single disaster stayed his progress . News ...
... possession of Milan , and over- running the whole of Lombardy . Before the end of May , he had passed the Mincio , forcing the Austrians partly into Mantua and partly into the uplands . Not a single disaster stayed his progress . News ...
Page xxxii
... possession of the Austrian Netherlands , pro- vinces in themselves of the highest value and importance , had a ... possession of Savoy threatened a similar degradation for Switzer- INTRODUCTION . xxxiii land . The possession of Nice ...
... possession of the Austrian Netherlands , pro- vinces in themselves of the highest value and importance , had a ... possession of Savoy threatened a similar degradation for Switzer- INTRODUCTION . xxxiii land . The possession of Nice ...
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