 | 1805 - 664 ページ
...because he did not think it worth the risk of a war, in ' which he might, perhaps, be considered as the aggressor, and by • which he should lose more...Turkish empire, or by some arrangement with the Porte.' "Asa proof of his desire to maintain p«ace, he wished to know what he had to gain by going to war... | |
 | Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - 1803 - 494 ページ
...because he did not think " it worth the risk of a war, in which he might, " perhaps, be considered as the aggressor, and " by which he should lose more...Turkish empire, or by some arrangement " with the Porte •" and his honest minister Talleyrand, with equal frankness confessed, that * Letter from Lord Whitworth... | |
 | 1805 - 676 ページ
...because he did not think it worth the risk of a war, in * which he might, perhaps, be considered as the aggressor, and by • which he should lose more...belong to France, either by the falling to pieces c of the Turkish empire, or by some arrangement with the Porte.' " As a proof of his desire to maintain... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1805 - 360 ページ
...that conference, Buonaparte had the assurance to declare, in these express terms of defiance, that, " sooner " or later, Egypt would belong to France ;...falling to pieces of the Turkish Empire, or by some (f arrangement with the Porte." — Papers relative to the Discussion with France, No. 38. •f- This... | |
 | 1805 - 654 ページ
...because he did not think it worth the risk of a war, in * which he might, perhaps, be considered as the aggressor, and by ' which he should lose more than he could giin, since sooner or ' later Egypt would belong to Erance, either by the falling to pieces ' oftheTurkish... | |
 | Gustav Graf von Schlabrendorf - 1806 - 468 ページ
...uphold. " Sooner or later"— These, Citizen Consul, are jour ow.n words, " Sooner or later Egypt will belong to France, " either by the falling to pieces...empire, or by some arrangement with the " Porte." I now summon you in the presence of all Europe, before whose tribunal you have drawn us, and ask, On... | |
 | J. W. Robertson - 1815 - 850 ページ
...which he might perhaps be considered as the aggressor, and by which he should lose more than he should gain, since sooner or later Egypt would belong to...France, either by the falling to pieces of the Turkish Etttpire, or by some arrangement with the Porte. As a proof of his desire to maintain peace, he wished... | |
 | William B. Hewetson - 1816 - 572 ページ
...25,000 men to Aboukir, but he did not think it \\orth the risk of a war, as Egypt, sooner or later, would belong to France, either by the falling to pieces of the Turkish empire; or by au arrangement with the Porte. He asked what he should gain by going to war with England ( he had no... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1816 - 874 ページ
...perhaps, be . considered as the aggressor, and by which he. should lote nutre than he could gain, sine c, sooner or later, Egypt would belong to France, either...pieces of the Turkish empire, or by some arrangement ivith the Porte. " As a proof of his desire to maintain peare, he wished to know what he had to jçain... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1818 - 582 ページ
...which he might, perhaps, be considered as the aggressor, end by which he should hie more than he should gain, since, sooner or later, Egypt would belong to France, either by the falling in pieces of the Turkish empire, or by some an-atigement n'ith the Porte. " As a proof of his desire... | |
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This he should not do, whatever might be his desire to have it as a colony, because he did not think it worth the risk of a war, in which he might, perhaps, be... 
