"Cold as ice themselves, they never could kindle in our breasts a spark of that zeal, which is necessary to a conflict with an adverse zeal; much less were they made to infuse into our minds that stubborn persevering spirit, which alone is capable of bearing up against those vicissitudes of fortune which will probably occur, and those burthens which must be inevitably borne in a long war."
Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France [Letters on a Regicide Peace]
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1796, 1797).<br> 
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Text from <u>Select Works of Edmund Burke. A New Imprint of the Payne Edition</u>, Foreword and Biographical Note by Francis Canavan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Vol. 3. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/658">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France</u> (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=o9RbAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;