The London Quarterly Review, Volume 15Theodore Foster, 1817 |
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... lives were exemplary and their man- ners truly patriarchal , -il faut en convenir , la plupart de ceux - ci menaient une vie exemplaire , et evaient conservé les mœurs pa- triarchales . When therefore their pastors were superseded by ...
... lives were exemplary and their man- ners truly patriarchal , -il faut en convenir , la plupart de ceux - ci menaient une vie exemplaire , et evaient conservé les mœurs pa- triarchales . When therefore their pastors were superseded by ...
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... lives if they would dig a pit capacious enough to receive the slain , -when they had done their work , they were shot upon the bodies of their companions . These things had exasperated the insurgents ; they had arrested many of the ...
... lives if they would dig a pit capacious enough to receive the slain , -when they had done their work , they were shot upon the bodies of their companions . These things had exasperated the insurgents ; they had arrested many of the ...
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... lives ; these very prisoners seized the cannon which were left on the shore , and fired grape shot at the fugitives ; and when the republican army came up , they dug up Bonchamp's body from the grave , beheaded it , and sent the head as ...
... lives ; these very prisoners seized the cannon which were left on the shore , and fired grape shot at the fugitives ; and when the republican army came up , they dug up Bonchamp's body from the grave , beheaded it , and sent the head as ...
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... lives ; and in a few days its sufferings were termi- ' nated . The route of Mans had been fatal to the Vendeans : they reached Laval once more on the 13th of December , and in three days more arrived at Ancenis , in the forlorn hope of ...
... lives ; and in a few days its sufferings were termi- ' nated . The route of Mans had been fatal to the Vendeans : they reached Laval once more on the 13th of December , and in three days more arrived at Ancenis , in the forlorn hope of ...
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... lives of six hundred thousand Frenchmen ; and not a fifth part of the male population was left alive ! What a chapter in the history of France ! The state in which these unhappy provinces were left may be understood from a sin- gle ...
... lives of six hundred thousand Frenchmen ; and not a fifth part of the male population was left alive ! What a chapter in the history of France ! The state in which these unhappy provinces were left may be understood from a sin- gle ...
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