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... BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS .................................... . 182 Of Belleisle and his Plans , p . 187 . CHAPTER VIII . PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG .... IX . FRIEDRICH iv CONTENTS .
... BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS .................................... . 182 Of Belleisle and his Plans , p . 187 . CHAPTER VIII . PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG .... IX . FRIEDRICH iv CONTENTS .
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... Belleisle Enterprises succeed , 277 . Belleisle on Visit to Friedrich ; sees Friedrich besiege Brieg , with Effect , 280 . XII . SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY .. 1. Snatch of Parliamentary Eloquence by Mr. Viner ( 19th April , 1741 ) ...
... Belleisle Enterprises succeed , 277 . Belleisle on Visit to Friedrich ; sees Friedrich besiege Brieg , with Effect , 280 . XII . SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY .. 1. Snatch of Parliamentary Eloquence by Mr. Viner ( 19th April , 1741 ) ...
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... BELLEISLE ARMAMENT ..... 388 The French safe in Prag ; Kaiserwahl just coming on , p . 395 . Broglio has a Bivouac of Pisek ; Khevenhüller looks in upon the Donau Conquests , 397 . VIII . FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA ON A NEW SCHEME HE ...
... BELLEISLE ARMAMENT ..... 388 The French safe in Prag ; Kaiserwahl just coming on , p . 395 . Broglio has a Bivouac of Pisek ; Khevenhüller looks in upon the Donau Conquests , 397 . VIII . FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA ON A NEW SCHEME HE ...
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... Belleisle , returning from Dresden without Co - operation , found the Attack had been done - in a fatally reverse way . Prag expecting Siege . Colloquy with Broglio on that in- teresting point . Prag besieged , 479 . Concerning the ...
... Belleisle , returning from Dresden without Co - operation , found the Attack had been done - in a fatally reverse way . Prag expecting Siege . Colloquy with Broglio on that in- teresting point . Prag besieged , 479 . Concerning the ...
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... BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS . WHILE Friedrich was so busy in Silesia , the world was not asleep around him ; the world never is , though it often seems to be , round a man and what action he does in it . That Sunday morning , First ...
... BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS . WHILE Friedrich was so busy in Silesia , the world was not asleep around him ; the world never is , though it often seems to be , round a man and what action he does in it . That Sunday morning , First ...
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Page 119 - ... it is cursorily, and in the business way only ; and there is not here or elsewhere the least pleading — a man, you would say, considerably indifferent to our belief on that head : his eye set on the practical merely. "Just Rights? What are rights, never so just, which you cannot make valid ! The world is full of such. If you have rights and can assert them into facts, do it ; that is worth doing...
Page 34 - Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee.
Page 303 - This picture can not fail to be shocking to the humane reader, especially when he is informed that, while those miserable objects cried in vain for assistance, and actually perished for want of proper attendance, every ship of war in the fleet could have spared a couple of surgeons for their relief, and many young gentlemen of that profession solicited their captains in vain for leave to go and administer help to the sick and wounded.
Page 110 - Opportunity in this manner, and obeyed the new omen. To seize such an opportunity, and perilously mount upon it, was the part of a young magnanimous King, less sensible to the perils, and more to the other considerations, than one older would have been.