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 xxvii
... negotiation must be at an end . The Netherlands were now part of France . They had been incorporated with the Republic by a law which the Directory had not the power , even if they had the will , to alter . The French government thus ...
... negotiation must be at an end . The Netherlands were now part of France . They had been incorporated with the Republic by a law which the Directory had not the power , even if they had the will , to alter . The French government thus ...
Page xxviii
... negotiation . They indicated only suspicious temper on the part of France , which had prevented the negotiations from being matured . Peace being the undoubted interest of both nations , peaceful proposals made in all sincerity by one ...
... negotiation . They indicated only suspicious temper on the part of France , which had prevented the negotiations from being matured . Peace being the undoubted interest of both nations , peaceful proposals made in all sincerity by one ...
Page xxxi
... negotiation at the outset . The English based their hopes of the abandonment of French military ambition on the successes of the Archduke Charles , on the failure and mismanagement of the internal resources of France , which was ...
... negotiation at the outset . The English based their hopes of the abandonment of French military ambition on the successes of the Archduke Charles , on the failure and mismanagement of the internal resources of France , which was ...
Page xxxii
... negotiations from the King's Speech which accompanied it , he pictured with bitter irony the crowned heads of Europe patiently waiting as suitors in the antechamber of the Luxembourg , and among the rest , the proud monarchy of Britain ...
... negotiations from the King's Speech which accompanied it , he pictured with bitter irony the crowned heads of Europe patiently waiting as suitors in the antechamber of the Luxembourg , and among the rest , the proud monarchy of Britain ...
Page xxxvii
... negotiations is amply detailed in the Second Part of the Third Letter . Malmesbury's last interview with Delacroix , during which the whole proposal of England was amply exposed and discussed , took place on the 17th of December . Next ...
... negotiations is amply detailed in the Second Part of the Third Letter . Malmesbury's last interview with Delacroix , during which the whole proposal of England was amply exposed and discussed , took place on the 17th of December . Next ...
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