Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... Court of Berlin were in a state of such squalid poverty as moved the laughter of foreign capitals , while the food placed before the princes and princesses of the blood - royal of Prussia was too scanty to appease hunger , and so bad ...
... Court of Berlin were in a state of such squalid poverty as moved the laughter of foreign capitals , while the food placed before the princes and princesses of the blood - royal of Prussia was too scanty to appease hunger , and so bad ...
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... 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 , of the Kings of Sweden and Poland , and of ...
... 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 , of the Kings of Sweden and Poland , and of ...
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... Court of Vienna , to waive those pretensions . It is certain that , whoever might originally have been in the right , Prussia had submitted . Prince after prince of the house of Brandenburg had acquiesced in the existing arrangement ...
... Court of Vienna , to waive those pretensions . It is certain that , whoever might originally have been in the right , Prussia had submitted . Prince after prince of the house of Brandenburg had acquiesced in the existing arrangement ...
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... court of these facts , and expressed a suspicion of Frederic's designs ; but the ministers of Maria Theresa refused to give credit to so black an imputation on a young prince who was known chiefly by his high professions of integrity ...
... court of these facts , and expressed a suspicion of Frederic's designs ; but the ministers of Maria Theresa refused to give credit to so black an imputation on a young prince who was known chiefly by his high professions of integrity ...
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... Court of Versailles , in this peril , looked to Frederic for help . He had been guilty of two great treasons perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis ...
... Court of Versailles , in this peril , looked to Frederic for help . He had been guilty of two great treasons perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis ...
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