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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... hope of adding to his Rhenish ter- ritories . Liberally subsidized by the English , he sent a few troops for show to the army of the Coalition , and employed the bulk of the loan in an expedition for the dismemberment of Poland . At ...
... hope of adding to his Rhenish ter- ritories . Liberally subsidized by the English , he sent a few troops for show to the army of the Coalition , and employed the bulk of the loan in an expedition for the dismemberment of Poland . At ...
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... hope of restoring peace , unless by surrendering the principle of a balance of the European power in which France should not disproportionately predominate . For above a century the maintenance of this principle had been a primary maxim ...
... hope of restoring peace , unless by surrendering the principle of a balance of the European power in which France should not disproportionately predominate . For above a century the maintenance of this principle had been a primary maxim ...
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... high celebrity among military exploits . Jourdan's failure kindled fresh hope in those who believed the French might yet listen to reasonable proposals of peace So severe a blow could not but tend to bring INTRODUCTION. ...
... high celebrity among military exploits . Jourdan's failure kindled fresh hope in those who believed the French might yet listen to reasonable proposals of peace So severe a blow could not but tend to bring INTRODUCTION. ...
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... hope , they do not even ap- pear to wish , the extinction of what subsists to their certain ruin . Their ambition is only to be admitted to a more favoured class in the order of servitude under that domineering power . This seems the ...
... hope , they do not even ap- pear to wish , the extinction of what subsists to their certain ruin . Their ambition is only to be admitted to a more favoured class in the order of servitude under that domineering power . This seems the ...
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... hope that the British fortune may fluctuate also ; because the public mind , which greatly influences that fortune , may have it's changes . We are therefore never authorized to abandon our country to it's fate , or to act or advise as ...
... hope that the British fortune may fluctuate also ; because the public mind , which greatly influences that fortune , may have it's changes . We are therefore never authorized to abandon our country to it's fate , or to act or advise as ...
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