A History of England: During the Reign of George the Third, Volume 4J.W. Parker and son, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... obtain redress for the wrongs of which Great Britain had reason to complain . This amendment , though moderate , received so little encouragement , that the proposer suffered it to be negatived without a division . A few days after ...
... obtain redress for the wrongs of which Great Britain had reason to complain . This amendment , though moderate , received so little encouragement , that the proposer suffered it to be negatived without a division . A few days after ...
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... obtained a truce from the Allied Generals , and he sent the Commissioners of the French Convention to the prince of Coburg , Plans of as hostages for his fidelity to his new engage- ments . A more rash and hopeless enterprise could ...
... obtained a truce from the Allied Generals , and he sent the Commissioners of the French Convention to the prince of Coburg , Plans of as hostages for his fidelity to his new engage- ments . A more rash and hopeless enterprise could ...
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... obtained an easy and a final victory ; after which , there would have been nothing to prevent the Allies from dictating a treaty of peace at Paris . The Convention , fully sensible of the dangers they had escaped , and of those which ...
... obtained an easy and a final victory ; after which , there would have been nothing to prevent the Allies from dictating a treaty of peace at Paris . The Convention , fully sensible of the dangers they had escaped , and of those which ...
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... obtained , by pushing forward . But , instead of advancing , the precious time was frittered away in idle negociations with the French Commissioners , which were at length contemptuously terminated by the orders of the Convention ...
... obtained , by pushing forward . But , instead of advancing , the precious time was frittered away in idle negociations with the French Commissioners , which were at length contemptuously terminated by the orders of the Convention ...
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... obtained possession - Toulon , the great arsenal of France , which had opened its gates to the British , and raised the standard not of Austria , but of Louis , was not thought of so much account as some petty fort in Flanders . The ...
... obtained possession - Toulon , the great arsenal of France , which had opened its gates to the British , and raised the standard not of Austria , but of Louis , was not thought of so much account as some petty fort in Flanders . The ...
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