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
... peace with England . The proposal for a Congress was at once viewed with suspicion : and the Directory de- clared that if England made the restoration of the Austrian Netherlands a condition of peace , negotiation must be at an end ...
... peace with England . The proposal for a Congress was at once viewed with suspicion : and the Directory de- clared that if England made the restoration of the Austrian Netherlands a condition of peace , negotiation must be at an end ...
Page xxviii
... peace of 1783 , when England retired in defeat from an inglorious and disastrous contest , it had not been assailed . Advocates of peace in England were thus confronted by a serious dileinma . Peace on the French terms meant , in ...
... peace of 1783 , when England retired in defeat from an inglorious and disastrous contest , it had not been assailed . Advocates of peace in England were thus confronted by a serious dileinma . Peace on the French terms meant , in ...
Page xxxi
... peace , and made it known that his terms would be substantially the same which had been rejected at Basle , there can be no doubt that the Directory would have consistently refused to treat . The new negotiation was thus based from the ...
... peace , and made it known that his terms would be substantially the same which had been rejected at Basle , there can be no doubt that the Directory would have consistently refused to treat . The new negotiation was thus based from the ...
Page xxxiii
... peace , could be considered as expressing the public mind of England . None but regicide sympathizers could really desire a regicide peace : the rest of the nation , if once roused to a full consideration of the question , and to a ...
... peace , could be considered as expressing the public mind of England . None but regicide sympathizers could really desire a regicide peace : the rest of the nation , if once roused to a full consideration of the question , and to a ...
Page xlix
... - ments of a whole that only existed in Burke's vast imagination . The reader unavoidably compares the Reflections on the Revolution 1 Milton , Areopagitica . d with the Letters on a Regicide Peace . Difficult as INTRODUCTION. ...
... - ments of a whole that only existed in Burke's vast imagination . The reader unavoidably compares the Reflections on the Revolution 1 Milton , Areopagitica . d with the Letters on a Regicide Peace . Difficult as INTRODUCTION. ...
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