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... PRAGMATIC SANCTION ... • Who was to blame for the Austrian - Succession War ? p . 260 . How Belleisle made Visit to Teutschland , and there was no fit Henry the Fowler to welcome him , 261 . Downbreak of Pragmatic Sanction ; Manner of ...
... PRAGMATIC SANCTION ... • Who was to blame for the Austrian - Succession War ? p . 260 . How Belleisle made Visit to Teutschland , and there was no fit Henry the Fowler to welcome him , 261 . Downbreak of Pragmatic Sanction ; Manner of ...
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... Pragmatic Army , " ready for Battle and Treaty alike , p . 516 . Friedrich has Objections to the Pragmatic Army , but in vain . Of Friedrich's many Endeavors to quench this War , by " Union of Independent German Princes , " by ...
... Pragmatic Army , " ready for Battle and Treaty alike , p . 516 . Friedrich has Objections to the Pragmatic Army , but in vain . Of Friedrich's many Endeavors to quench this War , by " Union of Independent German Princes , " by ...
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... Pragmatic Sanction , and instead of enemy to that inestimable Document has become friend , if only she be well let alone . " Let well alone , " says the sad Kaiser , bankrupt of heart as well as purse : " I have saved the Pragmatic ...
... Pragmatic Sanction , and instead of enemy to that inestimable Document has become friend , if only she be well let alone . " Let well alone , " says the sad Kaiser , bankrupt of heart as well as purse : " I have saved the Pragmatic ...
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... Pragmatic Sanction left between the fallen House and them ! Friedrich kept silence ; showed no sign how transfixed he was to hear such tidings , which , he foresaw , would have immeasurable consequences in the world . One of the first ...
... Pragmatic Sanction left between the fallen House and them ! Friedrich kept silence ; showed no sign how transfixed he was to hear such tidings , which , he foresaw , would have immeasurable consequences in the world . One of the first ...
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... Pragmatic Sanc- tion well engrossed , and generally sworn to by mankind , after much effort ! The outer Public of that time , and Voltaire among them more deliberately afterward , spoke of " mushrooms , " an " indigestion of mushrooms ...
... Pragmatic Sanc- tion well engrossed , and generally sworn to by mankind , after much effort ! The outer Public of that time , and Voltaire among them more deliberately afterward , spoke of " mushrooms , " an " indigestion of mushrooms ...
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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.