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... Officers , principal Officials having sworn , and the new King being fairly in the saddle , estafettes and post- boys shoot forth at the top of their speed ; and Rumor , toward every point of the compass , apprises mankind what immense ...
... Officers , principal Officials having sworn , and the new King being fairly in the saddle , estafettes and post- boys shoot forth at the top of their speed ; and Rumor , toward every point of the compass , apprises mankind what immense ...
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... Officers and chief Ministers taking the Oath , Friedrich , to his Officers , " on whom he counts for the same zeal now which he had witnessed as their com- rade , " recommends mildness of demeanor from the higher to the lower , and that ...
... Officers and chief Ministers taking the Oath , Friedrich , to his Officers , " on whom he counts for the same zeal now which he had witnessed as their com- rade , " recommends mildness of demeanor from the higher to the lower , and that ...
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... officers , proper wages , treatment ; and the hum of their poor spindles , and of their poor inarticulate old hearts , is a comfort , if one chance to think of it . Of " dis- tressed needlewomen " who can not sew , nor be taught to do ...
... officers , proper wages , treatment ; and the hum of their poor spindles , and of their poor inarticulate old hearts , is a comfort , if one chance to think of it . Of " dis- tressed needlewomen " who can not sew , nor be taught to do ...
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... Officer can not quit his post without order ; that he , at this moment , ought to be in Landsberg ! 17 Schulenburg has a hard old military face ; but . here is a young face too which has grown unexpectedly rigor- 17 Stenzel , iv . , 41 ...
... Officer can not quit his post without order ; that he , at this moment , ought to be in Landsberg ! 17 Schulenburg has a hard old military face ; but . here is a young face too which has grown unexpectedly rigor- 17 Stenzel , iv . , 41 ...
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... Officers : " Many pardons , gentlemen , and many thanks . Knowing nobody ; de- sirous of acquaintance ; since you are so good , how happy , by a little in- formality , to have brought brave Officers to keep me company , whom I value ...
... Officers : " Many pardons , gentlemen , and many thanks . Knowing nobody ; de- sirous of acquaintance ; since you are so good , how happy , by a little in- formality , to have brought brave Officers to keep me company , whom I value ...
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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.