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 x
... whole world as an enemy , in a far stronger position than the beginning . The fortunes of France steadily rose from the hour when the Duke of York was forced to raise the siege of Dunkirk . During the winter , the army in Flanders was ...
... whole world as an enemy , in a far stronger position than the beginning . The fortunes of France steadily rose from the hour when the Duke of York was forced to raise the siege of Dunkirk . During the winter , the army in Flanders was ...
Page xi
... whole frontier , from Dunkirk to Switzerland . This was enough to unite everything that was French within the boundaries of France ; and to make an enemy to the Coalition out of every Frenchman who had a spark of patriotic feeling . In ...
... whole frontier , from Dunkirk to Switzerland . This was enough to unite everything that was French within the boundaries of France ; and to make an enemy to the Coalition out of every Frenchman who had a spark of patriotic feeling . In ...
Page xiv
... whole force of his powerful mind . Conceiving the war to be mainly the business of those great military powers who had been robbed of their territories by France , he thought his part done , so far as con- cerned Europe , when he had ...
... whole force of his powerful mind . Conceiving the war to be mainly the business of those great military powers who had been robbed of their territories by France , he thought his part done , so far as con- cerned Europe , when he had ...
Page xxix
... whole forces of the French Republic on Vienna . Fortune steadily attended the French arms in Italy : and nothing in the world seemed more unlikely than defeat in Germany . Once more Frankfort was occupied and pillaged : the important ...
... whole forces of the French Republic on Vienna . Fortune steadily attended the French arms in Italy : and nothing in the world seemed more unlikely than defeat in Germany . Once more Frankfort was occupied and pillaged : the important ...
Page xxx
... whole was given to Bonaparte . Hardly had the first blow been struck , when the King of Sardinia sued for peace , and opened to French garrisons those famous fortresses which made Piedmont the key of Italy . The Duke of Parma followed ...
... whole was given to Bonaparte . Hardly had the first blow been struck , when the King of Sardinia sued for peace , and opened to French garrisons those famous fortresses which made Piedmont the key of Italy . The Duke of Parma followed ...
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