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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... sovereign whose head was full of modern ideas . Joseph the Second was a man of progress and enlightenment . Relying on the alliance with France which had been cemented by the marriage of the French king with an Austrian princess , he ...
... sovereign whose head was full of modern ideas . Joseph the Second was a man of progress and enlightenment . Relying on the alliance with France which had been cemented by the marriage of the French king with an Austrian princess , he ...
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... sovereigns of Prussia , of Spain , and of Naples , not to mention lesser ones , were known to be willing to treat with the Convention , stained though it was with the blood of a king . The Emperor was on the point of nego- tiating : the ...
... sovereigns of Prussia , of Spain , and of Naples , not to mention lesser ones , were known to be willing to treat with the Convention , stained though it was with the blood of a king . The Emperor was on the point of nego- tiating : the ...
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... sovereign , but indulging his ravening maw in the expectation of more . Such a picture may indeed not misrepresent the party who had dominated in the Convention , and succeeded in dominating in the Directory . But it misre- presents ...
... sovereign , but indulging his ravening maw in the expectation of more . Such a picture may indeed not misrepresent the party who had dominated in the Convention , and succeeded in dominating in the Directory . But it misre- presents ...
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... sovereign . With the Convention , had it lasted , he would have waged an inexpiable war . But France had now seen the error of her ways . The Convention , after bringing France to the verge of ruin , had vanished . A new constitution ...
... sovereign . With the Convention , had it lasted , he would have waged an inexpiable war . But France had now seen the error of her ways . The Convention , after bringing France to the verge of ruin , had vanished . A new constitution ...
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... Sovereign . Then , when , sunk on the down of usurped pomp , he shall have sufficiently indulged his meditations with what Monarch he shall next glut his ravening maw , he may condescend to signify that it is his pleasure to be awake ...
... Sovereign . Then , when , sunk on the down of usurped pomp , he shall have sufficiently indulged his meditations with what Monarch he shall next glut his ravening maw , he may condescend to signify that it is his pleasure to be awake ...
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