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 v
... The Gironde and the Mountain had wrestled fiercely for power : and the victory had fallen to the least moderate of the two . The ascendancy of 98760 the Mountain in the Convention had produced the domination of INTRODUCTION. ...
... The Gironde and the Mountain had wrestled fiercely for power : and the victory had fallen to the least moderate of the two . The ascendancy of 98760 the Mountain in the Convention had produced the domination of INTRODUCTION. ...
Page vi
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. the Mountain in the Convention had produced the domination of Robespierre . The fall of Robespierre had been followed by the Thermidorian reaction , and the White Terror : and the Conven- tion , rapidly ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. the Mountain in the Convention had produced the domination of Robespierre . The fall of Robespierre had been followed by the Thermidorian reaction , and the White Terror : and the Conven- tion , rapidly ...
Page x
... produced a powerful revival of the republican party . Everywhere the Revolution reproduced itself . Province after province of the United Nether- lands gladly capitulated as the French advanced . While the Stadtholder fled to England ...
... produced a powerful revival of the republican party . Everywhere the Revolution reproduced itself . Province after province of the United Nether- lands gladly capitulated as the French advanced . While the Stadtholder fled to England ...
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... produced one curious result . It forced that peace which Prussia had accepted on the smaller states of Western Germany . Those states hastened to make their peace , to save themselves from annexation : and among the rest , the King of ...
... produced one curious result . It forced that peace which Prussia had accepted on the smaller states of Western Germany . Those states hastened to make their peace , to save themselves from annexation : and among the rest , the King of ...
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... produced the failure of the negotiations ? The absence of full authority on the part of the ministerial delegate . The transaction was informal : and on other grounds , the French had reason to distrust the sincerity of the English ...
... produced the failure of the negotiations ? The absence of full authority on the part of the ministerial delegate . The transaction was informal : and on other grounds , the French had reason to distrust the sincerity of the English ...
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