The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE . 171 LETTER I. ON THE OVERTURES OF PEACE LETTER II . ON THE ... PROPOSED ; AND THE RE- SOURCES OF THE COUNTRY FOR THE CONTINU- ANCE OF THE WAR . • 384 OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT ...
... PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE . 171 LETTER I. ON THE OVERTURES OF PEACE LETTER II . ON THE ... PROPOSED ; AND THE RE- SOURCES OF THE COUNTRY FOR THE CONTINU- ANCE OF THE WAR . • 384 OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT ...
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... proposed an amendment to the address , which stands on the journals of the House , and which is , perhaps , the most extraordinary record which ever did stand upon them . To introduce this amendment , he not only struck out the part of ...
... proposed an amendment to the address , which stands on the journals of the House , and which is , perhaps , the most extraordinary record which ever did stand upon them . To introduce this amendment , he not only struck out the part of ...
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... proposed , that France should not be obliged to make any very great concessions to her presumed moderation : for he had laid down . one general , comprehensive rule , with him ( as he said ) constant and inviolable . This rule , in fact ...
... proposed , that France should not be obliged to make any very great concessions to her presumed moderation : for he had laid down . one general , comprehensive rule , with him ( as he said ) constant and inviolable . This rule , in fact ...
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... proposed to treat with her , that formidable power must have been infinitely strengthened , and almost every other power in Europe as much weak- ened , by the extraordinary basis which he laid for a treaty . For Avignon must go from the ...
... proposed to treat with her , that formidable power must have been infinitely strengthened , and almost every other power in Europe as much weak- ened , by the extraordinary basis which he laid for a treaty . For Avignon must go from the ...
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... proposed to make . As the circumstances were at that time , and have been ever since , his proposition . fully indicated what government the Flemings must have in the stated extent of what was left to them . A government so set up in ...
... proposed to make . As the circumstances were at that time , and have been ever since , his proposition . fully indicated what government the Flemings must have in the stated extent of what was left to them . A government so set up in ...
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