The London Quarterly Review, Volume 15Theodore Foster, 1817 |
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Page 7
... remarkable taciturnity , unless it be the purity of manners for which their countrymen extol them . Drunkenness is the sin which most easily besets them ; worse vices are said to have been almost unknown to them before the civil wars ...
... remarkable taciturnity , unless it be the purity of manners for which their countrymen extol them . Drunkenness is the sin which most easily besets them ; worse vices are said to have been almost unknown to them before the civil wars ...
Page 27
... remarkable , and his vanity was easily offended ; but he was a brave , honest , and good man . Bonchamp was a far better officer : he had served with distinction in India under Suffrein ; and of all men in the army , his opinion had the ...
... remarkable , and his vanity was easily offended ; but he was a brave , honest , and good man . Bonchamp was a far better officer : he had served with distinction in India under Suffrein ; and of all men in the army , his opinion had the ...
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... remarkable victory . None of their generals were present ; but the Abbé Ber- nier persuaded the men that they were in the field , and he in great measure directed the movements : they knew that Santerre was with the Blues , and they had ...
... remarkable victory . None of their generals were present ; but the Abbé Ber- nier persuaded the men that they were in the field , and he in great measure directed the movements : they knew that Santerre was with the Blues , and they had ...
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... remarkable for setting an example of honour , court- esy , and humanity , and for restraining as far as he could the ex- cesses of those under his command . This fact probably is not known in France as it ought to be and if on this ...
... remarkable for setting an example of honour , court- esy , and humanity , and for restraining as far as he could the ex- cesses of those under his command . This fact probably is not known in France as it ought to be and if on this ...
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... remarkable phenomena , which baffle all à priori reasoning , by running counter to the national character of the people , in which they are displayed . To what shall we attribute it , that the frivo- lous and ignorant audience of Paris ...
... remarkable phenomena , which baffle all à priori reasoning , by running counter to the national character of the people , in which they are displayed . To what shall we attribute it , that the frivo- lous and ignorant audience of Paris ...
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