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... Towns - was on Tuesday , August 2d . At Berlin his Majesty was present in the matter ; but , except the gazing mul- titudes , and hussar regiments ranked in the Schloss - Platz and streets adjoining , there was little of notable in it ...
... Towns - was on Tuesday , August 2d . At Berlin his Majesty was present in the matter ; but , except the gazing mul- titudes , and hussar regiments ranked in the Schloss - Platz and streets adjoining , there was little of notable in it ...
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... Town and Province , Maréchal of France , Chevalier of the Orders of the King , & c . , & c.— Maréchal Duc de Broglio , in fact , " who was surprised at Secchia in the late War-- This general always surprised , Whom with regret young ...
... Town and Province , Maréchal of France , Chevalier of the Orders of the King , & c . , & c.— Maréchal Duc de Broglio , in fact , " who was surprised at Secchia in the late War-- This general always surprised , Whom with regret young ...
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... Town of Ruhrort , about midway between Wesel and Düsseldorf - must be some forty miles from Moyland , forty- five from Cleve ; southward of both . So that the place , " à deux lieues de Clèves , " is , even by Voltaire's showing , this ...
... Town of Ruhrort , about midway between Wesel and Düsseldorf - must be some forty miles from Moyland , forty- five from Cleve ; southward of both . So that the place , " à deux lieues de Clèves , " is , even by Voltaire's showing , this ...
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... town he is after three days ' experience , as here . But he does not always ; he hangs out a mere " shadow of Mörs by moonlight , " till we learn better . Duvernet , his Biographer , even calls it " Sleus - Meuse ; " some wonderful idea ...
... town he is after three days ' experience , as here . But he does not always ; he hangs out a mere " shadow of Mörs by moonlight , " till we learn better . Duvernet , his Biographer , even calls it " Sleus - Meuse ; " some wonderful idea ...
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... Town of the Bishop's , the handiest for Wesel ; to occupy Maaseyk and the adjoining " Counties of Lotz and Horn , " and lie there at the Bishop's charge till his Reverence's mind alter . Borck is ready , to the last pontoon , the last ...
... Town of the Bishop's , the handiest for Wesel ; to occupy Maaseyk and the adjoining " Counties of Lotz and Horn , " and lie there at the Bishop's charge till his Reverence's mind alter . Borck is ready , to the last pontoon , the last ...
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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.