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Page 66
Overtures from Buonapurte for Peace with England . - - Rejected . W HETHER we
contemplate taken up with objects present to W the great affairs of nations their
senses , and new to their ima . " in a political or military point of ginations , he ...
Overtures from Buonapurte for Peace with England . - - Rejected . W HETHER we
contemplate taken up with objects present to W the great affairs of nations their
senses , and new to their ima . " in a political or military point of ginations , he ...
Page 77
It was not polli - peace could be made with France ble , " he observed , “ to have
made in her present situation . The French the fedy of the present condition of
minister , Talleyrand , had allerted in the world , as he had done , a prin - his pote
...
It was not polli - peace could be made with France ble , " he observed , “ to have
made in her present situation . The French the fedy of the present condition of
minister , Talleyrand , had allerted in the world , as he had done , a prin - his pote
...
Page 81
He , like all statesovertures for peace . In fact , every men , no doubt , willed to
make a thing he had advanced , as reasons peace , advantageous to himself ,
and for entering into the former nego ; the nation over which he presided . ciation
...
He , like all statesovertures for peace . In fact , every men , no doubt , willed to
make a thing he had advanced , as reasons peace , advantageous to himself ,
and for entering into the former nego ; the nation over which he presided . ciation
...
Page 98
Aye , but you say , the peothe change which hard lately taken ple were anxious
for peace in 1797 . place : that we could not derive I say , they are friends to
peace , any confidence either from the frame and I am confident you will one of
the ...
Aye , but you say , the peothe change which hard lately taken ple were anxious
for peace in 1797 . place : that we could not derive I say , they are friends to
peace , any confidence either from the frame and I am confident you will one of
the ...
Page 168
THE determination of the Bri - such circumstances , the only means 1 tish ministry
, on the subject of of obtaining an honourable , secure , peace or war with France
, we have and lasting peace , was , to profecute already seen in the course of ...
THE determination of the Bri - such circumstances , the only means 1 tish ministry
, on the subject of of obtaining an honourable , secure , peace or war with France
, we have and lasting peace , was , to profecute already seen in the course of ...
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| Title | The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 42. köide |
| Editor | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1801 |
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