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 vi
... rest . She had attained a position , which , if maintained , would prove the destruction of the old balance of power in Europe . In the eyes of Europe , the establishment of the Directory was the most important incident since the ...
... rest . She had attained a position , which , if maintained , would prove the destruction of the old balance of power in Europe . In the eyes of Europe , the establishment of the Directory was the most important incident since the ...
Page viii
... rest of Europe soon followed . Before the summer of 1793 Austria , Prussia , England , Holland , Russia , Spain , and all Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a ...
... rest of Europe soon followed . Before the summer of 1793 Austria , Prussia , England , Holland , Russia , Spain , and all Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a ...
Page xviii
... rest , the King of England hastened to make peace as Elector of Hanover . Another ill - judged blow at the Republic had been fruitlessly attempted . The Quiberon expedition had failed , having served no other purpose than to deepen yet ...
... rest , the King of England hastened to make peace as Elector of Hanover . Another ill - judged blow at the Republic had been fruitlessly attempted . The Quiberon expedition had failed , having served no other purpose than to deepen yet ...
Page xxxii
... rest of Europe . He then turned to the history of the overtures for peace . Omitting the Auckland pamphlet , and dating the negotiations from the King's Speech which accompanied it , he pictured with bitter irony the crowned heads of ...
... rest of Europe . He then turned to the history of the overtures for peace . Omitting the Auckland pamphlet , and dating the negotiations from the King's Speech which accompanied it , he pictured with bitter irony the crowned heads of ...
Page xxxiii
... rest of the nation , if once roused to a full consideration of the question , and to a sense of its enormous moment , must be in favour of maintaining the war . What pro- portion did the Jacobins , with Lansdowne , Fox , and Grey at ...
... rest of the nation , if once roused to a full consideration of the question , and to a sense of its enormous moment , must be in favour of maintaining the war . What pro- portion did the Jacobins , with Lansdowne , Fox , and Grey at ...
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