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... true , and inex- actly , but fluently and intelligibly . No qualification could be more important to a man whose life was to be passed in organising great alliances , and in commanding armies as- sembled from different countries ...
... true , and inex- actly , but fluently and intelligibly . No qualification could be more important to a man whose life was to be passed in organising great alliances , and in commanding armies as- sembled from different countries ...
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... true ; but he never loved her ; and he never obtained her love . To him she was always a land of exile , visited with reluctance and quitted with delight . Even when he rendered to her those services of which , at this day , we feel the ...
... true ; but he never loved her ; and he never obtained her love . To him she was always a land of exile , visited with reluctance and quitted with delight . Even when he rendered to her those services of which , at this day , we feel the ...
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... true value , and requited with a dry reprimand . The great King affected contempt for the petty Prince who was the servant of a confederacy of trading towns ; and to every mark of contempt the dauntless Stadt- holder replied by a fresh ...
... true value , and requited with a dry reprimand . The great King affected contempt for the petty Prince who was the servant of a confederacy of trading towns ; and to every mark of contempt the dauntless Stadt- holder replied by a fresh ...
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... true , he had been urged by an adviser , less sagacious and more impetuous than himself , to try a bolder course . This adviser was the young Lord Mordaunt . That age had produced no more inventive genius , and no more daring spirit ...
... true , he had been urged by an adviser , less sagacious and more impetuous than himself , to try a bolder course . This adviser was the young Lord Mordaunt . That age had produced no more inventive genius , and no more daring spirit ...
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... true that several remarkable conversions had recently Conver- taken place ; but they were such as did little credit to the sions to Church of Rome . Two men of high rank had joined her com- munion ; Henry Mordaunt , Earl of Peterborough ...
... true that several remarkable conversions had recently Conver- taken place ; but they were such as did little credit to the sions to Church of Rome . Two men of high rank had joined her com- munion ; Henry Mordaunt , Earl of Peterborough ...
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