This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...he had been acting according to explicit instructions from the Executive Council. He then presented Le Brun's note, and in addition to this, he requested permission to have more frequent conversations with Grenville privately, if he could not be recognized officially. The English minister took both ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...he had been acting according to explicit instructions from the Executive Council. He then presented Le Brun's note, and in addition to this, he requested permission to have more frequent conversations with Grenville privately, if he could not be recognized officially. The English minister took both this request and Le Brun's note under consideration, and promised to give his answers later."=1 Le Brun's note, after assurances of a continued desire for peace on the part of France, took up the questions which Grenville had raised in his paper of December 31. With regard to the decree of November 19, the former arguments used by Chauvelin were repeated and amplified, and then Le Brun continued: ---'" Debrett, State Papers I, 235. The note to which this was a reply alleged an unfair treatment of the French by the English officials in the enforcement of the proclamation relating to the export of gram. 8"Debrett, State Papers I, 236. 40Debrett, State Papers I, 237. 80Debrett, State Papers I, 236. "Auckland MSS. XXXVI, 25. We have said, and we desire to repeat it, that the decree of the 19th of November could not have any application, unless to the single case in which the general will of a nation, clearly and unequivocally expressed, should call the French nation to its assistance and fraternity. Sedition can certainly never be construed into the general will. These two ideas mutually repel each other, since a sedition is not, and cannot be any other than the movement of a small number against the nation at large; and this movement would cease to be seditious, provided all the members of a society should at once rise, either to correct their government, or change its form in toto, or for any other...
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Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 0404038786. Light shelfwear, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; reprint of the 1909 edition; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 232 pages.
