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
... sides , indeed , the defence of France aroused all the energy and ingenuity of the French character . And the French were now no longer in the hands of generals who hesitated between the Dauphin , the Duke of Orleans , and the Assembly ...
... sides , indeed , the defence of France aroused all the energy and ingenuity of the French character . And the French were now no longer in the hands of generals who hesitated between the Dauphin , the Duke of Orleans , and the Assembly ...
Page xiv
... side aggressors who defied the public law of Europe , in- sulted its diplomatists , and rearranged the relations of its peoples by the standard of their own rapacity , or convenience , or caprice . These were the most strenuous ...
... side aggressors who defied the public law of Europe , in- sulted its diplomatists , and rearranged the relations of its peoples by the standard of their own rapacity , or convenience , or caprice . These were the most strenuous ...
Page xxviii
... side must in the end meet with their due response . Perhaps some power among the former Allies , which had already made its peace , might by interposing its assurances of the honesty , good faith , and ultimate reason- ableness of the ...
... side must in the end meet with their due response . Perhaps some power among the former Allies , which had already made its peace , might by interposing its assurances of the honesty , good faith , and ultimate reason- ableness of the ...
Page xxix
... side of the Netherlands , France was pushing to the utmost the advantages she had gained on the Rhine and in Italy . The plan of the war was bold and simple . On the Rhine were Jourdan and Moreau : in Italy Bonaparte had established a ...
... side of the Netherlands , France was pushing to the utmost the advantages she had gained on the Rhine and in Italy . The plan of the war was bold and simple . On the Rhine were Jourdan and Moreau : in Italy Bonaparte had established a ...
Page xxxiii
... sides against a war in which England and her Allies had every- where been worsted , a war which , in an age of prolonged wars , had not lasted four years , and in which the strength of England had not yet been half put forth ? How was ...
... sides against a war in which England and her Allies had every- where been worsted , a war which , in an age of prolonged wars , had not lasted four years , and in which the strength of England had not yet been half put forth ? How was ...
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