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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... France like an electric stroke . Feeble and momentary in itself , it set in motion other forces of far other compass . Longwy was taken on the 23rd of INTRODUCTION . vii August , 1792 . Before the end vi INTRODUCTION .
... France like an electric stroke . Feeble and momentary in itself , it set in motion other forces of far other compass . Longwy was taken on the 23rd of INTRODUCTION . vii August , 1792 . Before the end vi INTRODUCTION .
Page ix
... taken by the Duke of York . In every quarter the prospects of the Republic darkened . Mentz was retaken . From the lower Loire came the news of the formidable insurrection of La Vendée . British ships occupied Toulon , seized the French ...
... taken by the Duke of York . In every quarter the prospects of the Republic darkened . Mentz was retaken . From the lower Loire came the news of the formidable insurrection of La Vendée . British ships occupied Toulon , seized the French ...
Page xi
... taken up his pen to expose these funda- mental errors . He had predicted that the Coalition as it stood could be no match for French energy . Instead of being at the head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of ...
... taken up his pen to expose these funda- mental errors . He had predicted that the Coalition as it stood could be no match for French energy . Instead of being at the head of a great confederacy , ' he wrote , ' and the arbiters of ...
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... taken place which tended to discredit the argument that no peace could be made with the blood - stained Republic . The Convention , with all its follies , all its crimes , and all its glories , was gone . It had not passed away in the ...
... taken place which tended to discredit the argument that no peace could be made with the blood - stained Republic . The Convention , with all its follies , all its crimes , and all its glories , was gone . It had not passed away in the ...
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... taken place in Holland . The Stadtholder of Holland and his family were safely lodged in Hampton Court : where would be the asylum of George the Third , and the Royal Family of England ? Feeble and broken as Burke was , it was not in ...
... taken place in Holland . The Stadtholder of Holland and his family were safely lodged in Hampton Court : where would be the asylum of George the Third , and the Royal Family of England ? Feeble and broken as Burke was , it was not in ...
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