Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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... England was bound not only to state her wrongs , but to say explicitly what would satisfy her . But Mr. Pitt recalled the English embassador from Paris on the tenth of August , 1792 ( when Louis XVI became vir- tually a prisoner ) ...
... England was bound not only to state her wrongs , but to say explicitly what would satisfy her . But Mr. Pitt recalled the English embassador from Paris on the tenth of August , 1792 ( when Louis XVI became vir- tually a prisoner ) ...
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... England . These aggressions and insults would have justified the English government in demanding ample reparation . But there was a difficulty as to the mode of negotiating . When Louis XVI was made a prisoner of the Convention by the ...
... England . These aggressions and insults would have justified the English government in demanding ample reparation . But there was a difficulty as to the mode of negotiating . When Louis XVI was made a prisoner of the Convention by the ...
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... England , a similar restoration of the territory which had been wrested from her by the French . This the Directory refused and , after a short negotiation , or- dered the English embassador to quit Paris in twenty - four hours . The ...
... England , a similar restoration of the territory which had been wrested from her by the French . This the Directory refused and , after a short negotiation , or- dered the English embassador to quit Paris in twenty - four hours . The ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MAnsfield | 69 |
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Essays from Select British Eloquence: Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Chauncey Allen Goodrich No preview available - 2012 |
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