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... Broglio has a Bivouac of Pisek ; Khevenhüller looks in upon the Donau Conquests , 397 . VIII . FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS ........ 400 IX . WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT .... 407 Wilhelmina at ...
... Broglio has a Bivouac of Pisek ; Khevenhüller looks in upon the Donau Conquests , 397 . VIII . FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS ........ 400 IX . WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT .... 407 Wilhelmina at ...
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... Broglio on that in- teresting point . Prag besieged , 479 . Concerning the Italian War which simultaneously went on all along , 482 . Scene , Roads of Cadiz , October , 1741 : By what astonishing Artifice this Italian War did at length ...
... Broglio on that in- teresting point . Prag besieged , 479 . Concerning the Italian War which simultaneously went on all along , 482 . Scene , Roads of Cadiz , October , 1741 : By what astonishing Artifice this Italian War did at length ...
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... Broglio , 492 . Voltaire has been on Visit at Aachen in the interim ; his Third Visit to King Friedrich , 495 . Three Letters of Voltaire , dated Brussels , 10th Sept. , 1742 , 497 . III . CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR - TIME ...... Retreat ...
... Broglio , 492 . Voltaire has been on Visit at Aachen in the interim ; his Third Visit to King Friedrich , 495 . Three Letters of Voltaire , dated Brussels , 10th Sept. , 1742 , 497 . III . CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR - TIME ...... Retreat ...
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... Broglio is Commandant in Strasburg , and these obliging Officers are " of the regiment Piedmont ; " their names on the King's tablets I never heard mentioned by any body ( or never till the King's Doggerel was fished up again ) . Field ...
... Broglio is Commandant in Strasburg , and these obliging Officers are " of the regiment Piedmont ; " their names on the King's tablets I never heard mentioned by any body ( or never till the King's Doggerel was fished up again ) . Field ...
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... Broglio , our Governor here , there came two gentlemen to be presented to him ; ' German Cavaliers ' they were called ; who , I now find , must have been the Prince of Prussia and Algarotti . The Field - Marshal , " a rather high ...
... Broglio , our Governor here , there came two gentlemen to be presented to him ; ' German Cavaliers ' they were called ; who , I now find , must have been the Prince of Prussia and Algarotti . The Field - Marshal , " a rather high ...
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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.