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... sure to be one of two results : mockery , contempt , disbelief , what we may call short - diet to the length of very famine ( which was Friedrich's case ) , or else slow poison , carefully elaborated and provided by way of daily ...
... sure to be one of two results : mockery , contempt , disbelief , what we may call short - diet to the length of very famine ( which was Friedrich's case ) , or else slow poison , carefully elaborated and provided by way of daily ...
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... sure authenticity ; the rest , occasionally true , and often with a kind of mythic truth in them worth attending to , are otherwise of all degrees of dubiety , down to the palpably false and absurd , men . 2d - 11th Sept. , 1740 . The ...
... sure authenticity ; the rest , occasionally true , and often with a kind of mythic truth in them worth attending to , are otherwise of all degrees of dubiety , down to the palpably false and absurd , men . 2d - 11th Sept. , 1740 . The ...
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... sure enough , Sunday night ; old Schloss of Moyland , six miles from Cleve ; “ moonlight , ” I find— the Harvest Moon . Visit lasted three days.5 No. 2. Voltaire's Drive thither . - Schloss Moyland : How far from Brussels , and by what ...
... sure enough , Sunday night ; old Schloss of Moyland , six miles from Cleve ; “ moonlight , ” I find— the Harvest Moon . Visit lasted three days.5 No. 2. Voltaire's Drive thither . - Schloss Moyland : How far from Brussels , and by what ...
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... sure issue at Berlin before long . What Voltaire thought of Herstal . Voltaire told us he himself " did one Manifesto , good or bad , ” on this Herstal Business : where is that Piece , then ? what has become of it ? Dig well in the ...
... sure issue at Berlin before long . What Voltaire thought of Herstal . Voltaire told us he himself " did one Manifesto , good or bad , ” on this Herstal Business : where is that Piece , then ? what has become of it ? Dig well in the ...
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... sure about it till they see the actual spades going ) this new King does fully intend to assert his rights on Berg - Jülich , and will appear there with his iron ramrods the instant old Kur - Pfalz shall decease , let France and the ...
... sure about it till they see the actual spades going ) this new King does fully intend to assert his rights on Berg - Jülich , and will appear there with his iron ramrods the instant old Kur - Pfalz shall decease , let France and the ...
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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.