Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... prince to whose policy his successors have agreed to ascribe their greatness . He acquired by the peace of Westphalia several valuable possessions , and among them the rich city and district of Magde- burg ; and he left to his son ...
... prince to whose policy his successors have agreed to ascribe their greatness . He acquired by the peace of Westphalia several valuable possessions , and among them the rich city and district of Magde- burg ; and he left to his son ...
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... prince who must be allowed to have possessed some talents for administration , but whose character was disfigured by odious vices , and whose eccentricities were such as had never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and ...
... prince who must be allowed to have possessed some talents for administration , but whose character was disfigured by odious vices , and whose eccentricities were such as had never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and ...
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... prince , were to sit in a cloud of tobacco smoke , to sip Swedish beer between the puffs of the pipe , to play backgammon for three halfpence a rubber , to kill wild hogs , and to shoot partridges by the thousand . The Prince Royal ...
... prince , were to sit in a cloud of tobacco smoke , to sip Swedish beer between the puffs of the pipe , to play backgammon for three halfpence a rubber , to kill wild hogs , and to shoot partridges by the thousand . The Prince Royal ...
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... Prince Royal attained that time of life at which the great revolution in the human mind and body takes place . He was guilty of some youthful indiscretions , which no good and wise parent would regard with severity . At a later period ...
... Prince Royal attained that time of life at which the great revolution in the human mind and body takes place . He was guilty of some youthful indiscretions , which no good and wise parent would regard with severity . At a later period ...
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... Prince , in spite of the recommendation of a court martial , was mercilessly put to death . It seemed probable that the Prince himself would suffer the same fate . It was with difficulty that the inter- cession of the States of Holland ...
... Prince , in spite of the recommendation of a court martial , was mercilessly put to death . It seemed probable that the Prince himself would suffer the same fate . It was with difficulty that the inter- cession of the States of Holland ...
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