Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... English , he did not , as far as we are aware , understand a single word . " As the highest human compositions to which he had access were those of the French writers , it is not strange that his admiration for those writers should have ...
... English , he did not , as far as we are aware , understand a single word . " As the highest human compositions to which he had access were those of the French writers , it is not strange that his admiration for those writers should have ...
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... English grey carried him many miles from the field , while Schwerin , though wounded in two places , man- fully upheld the day . The skill of the old Field- Marshal and the steadiness of the Prussian battalions prevailed ; and the ...
... English grey carried him many miles from the field , while Schwerin , though wounded in two places , man- fully upheld the day . The skill of the old Field- Marshal and the steadiness of the Prussian battalions prevailed ; and the ...
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... English government represented to her so strongly the necessity of buying off Frederic , that she agreed to negotiate . The negotiation would not , however , have ended in a treaty , had not the arms of Frederic been crowned with a ...
... English government represented to her so strongly the necessity of buying off Frederic , that she agreed to negotiate . The negotiation would not , however , have ended in a treaty , had not the arms of Frederic been crowned with a ...
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... English army appeared in the heart of Germany , and defeated the French at Dettingen . The Austrian captains already began to talk of completing the work of Marlborough and Eugene , and of compelling France to relinquish Alsace and the ...
... English army appeared in the heart of Germany , and defeated the French at Dettingen . The Austrian captains already began to talk of completing the work of Marlborough and Eugene , and of compelling France to relinquish Alsace and the ...
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... English and French troops of that day as the English and French troops to a rustic militia . Though the pay of the Prussian soldier was small , though every rixdollar of extraordinary charge was scrutinized by Frederic with a vigilance ...
... English and French troops of that day as the English and French troops to a rustic militia . Though the pay of the Prussian soldier was small , though every rixdollar of extraordinary charge was scrutinized by Frederic with a vigilance ...
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