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... . I. BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC .. Cunctations , yet incessant and ubiquitous Endeavorings of his Britannic Majesty ( 1741-1743 ) , p . 312 . 311 CHAPTER II . CAMP OF STREHLEN .. Excellency Hyndford has CONTENTS . V.
... . I. BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC .. Cunctations , yet incessant and ubiquitous Endeavorings of his Britannic Majesty ( 1741-1743 ) , p . 312 . 311 CHAPTER II . CAMP OF STREHLEN .. Excellency Hyndford has CONTENTS . V.
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... Strehlen , 7th August , 1741 ) , 340 . III . GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN : NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT Breslau , but ANOTHER HITS IT .. IV . FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN , INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE ...... V. KLEIN - SCHNELLENDORF : FRIEDRICH ...
... Strehlen , 7th August , 1741 ) , 340 . III . GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN : NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT Breslau , but ANOTHER HITS IT .. IV . FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN , INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE ...... V. KLEIN - SCHNELLENDORF : FRIEDRICH ...
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... Strehlen ; makes , at first direct westward toward the Oder , and then , when almost close upon it , breaks off to north , and saunters along , irregularly parallel to Oder , for twenty miles farther , be- fore it can fall fairly in ...
... Strehlen ; makes , at first direct westward toward the Oder , and then , when almost close upon it , breaks off to north , and saunters along , irregularly parallel to Oder , for twenty miles farther , be- fore it can fall fairly in ...
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... Strehlen , twenty miles away , among the Hills to the right yonder , as you may guess ; road very visible to the Prussian soldier , though he does not ask where quarried . These beauti- ful improvements , beautiful humanities , were ...
... Strehlen , twenty miles away , among the Hills to the right yonder , as you may guess ; road very visible to the Prussian soldier , though he does not ask where quarried . These beauti- ful improvements , beautiful humanities , were ...
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... Strehlen ; assembled the Country round it , on Mollwitz Field ; and pas- sionately discoursed and pleaded , That at least the Country should bring block - and - tackle , with proper frame - work , and set up this Obelisk on the Pedestal ...
... Strehlen ; assembled the Country round it , on Mollwitz Field ; and pas- sionately discoursed and pleaded , That at least the Country should bring block - and - tackle , with proper frame - work , and set up this Obelisk on the Pedestal ...
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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.