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... quarters , especially of the literary type , in hopes of being em- ployed , much hovered round Friedrich through his whole reign ; but they met a rather strict judge on arriving : it can not be said they found it such a Goshen as they ...
... quarters , especially of the literary type , in hopes of being em- ployed , much hovered round Friedrich through his whole reign ; but they met a rather strict judge on arriving : it can not be said they found it such a Goshen as they ...
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... quarters and nailed to the gallows at Wesel - waiting a time that would come . Time being come , Lieutenant Keith hastened home , ap- pealed to his effigy on the gallows , and was made a Lieutenant Colonel merely , with some slight ...
... quarters and nailed to the gallows at Wesel - waiting a time that would come . Time being come , Lieutenant Keith hastened home , ap- pealed to his effigy on the gallows , and was made a Lieutenant Colonel merely , with some slight ...
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... quarter ! So has Fried- rich decided - not quite suddenly , on new Letters here , or new computations about Cleve , but by forethought taken at Baireuth , as rather appears . From Frankfurt to Strasburg , say 150 miles ; from Strasburg ...
... quarter ! So has Fried- rich decided - not quite suddenly , on new Letters here , or new computations about Cleve , but by forethought taken at Baireuth , as rather appears . From Frankfurt to Strasburg , say 150 miles ; from Strasburg ...
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... quarter of an hour Algarotti too slipped out , and vanished by extra post " straight toward Wesel , but could not overtake the King ( whose road , in the latter part of it , went zigzag , on business as is like- ly ) , nor see him again ...
... quarter of an hour Algarotti too slipped out , and vanished by extra post " straight toward Wesel , but could not overtake the King ( whose road , in the latter part of it , went zigzag , on business as is like- ly ) , nor see him again ...
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... quarter - and you can for- get , if need be , the " Literature " of this young Majesty , as you would a staccato on the flute by him ! In after months , on new occasion rising , " there was no end to his jibings and bitter pleas ...
... quarter - and you can for- get , if need be , the " Literature " of this young Majesty , as you would a staccato on the flute by him ! In after months , on new occasion rising , " there was no end to his jibings and bitter pleas ...
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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.