Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 31
... George the Second to dictate terms of peace to France , what chance was there that Prussia would long retain Silesia ? Frederic's conscience told him that he had acted perfidiously and inhumanly towards the Queen of Hungary . That her ...
... George the Second to dictate terms of peace to France , what chance was there that Prussia would long retain Silesia ? Frederic's conscience told him that he had acted perfidiously and inhumanly towards the Queen of Hungary . That her ...
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... George the Second approaching to the atrocity of those satires on Frederic , which the booksellers at Berlin sold with impunity . One book- seller sent to the palace a copy of the most stinging lampoon that perhaps was ever written in ...
... George the Second approaching to the atrocity of those satires on Frederic , which the booksellers at Berlin sold with impunity . One book- seller sent to the palace a copy of the most stinging lampoon that perhaps was ever written in ...
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... George Keith , Earl Marischal of Scotland , had taken arms for the house of Stuart in 1715 ; and his younger brother James , then only seventeen years old , had fought gallantly by his side . When all was lost they retired together to ...
... George Keith , Earl Marischal of Scotland , had taken arms for the house of Stuart in 1715 ; and his younger brother James , then only seventeen years old , had fought gallantly by his side . When all was lost they retired together to ...
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... George had taken one side , Pondicherry the other ; and in a series of battles and sieges the troops of Lawrence and Clive had been opposed to those of Dupleix . A struggle less important in its consequences , but not less likely to ...
... George had taken one side , Pondicherry the other ; and in a series of battles and sieges the troops of Lawrence and Clive had been opposed to those of Dupleix . A struggle less important in its consequences , but not less likely to ...
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... George the Second . The sign- painters were everywhere employed in touching up Admiral Vernon into the King of Prussia . This enthusiasm was strong among religious people , and especially among the Methodists , who knew that the French ...
... George the Second . The sign- painters were everywhere employed in touching up Admiral Vernon into the King of Prussia . This enthusiasm was strong among religious people , and especially among the Methodists , who knew that the French ...
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