Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 21
... length the pleas which the compiler of the Memoirs before us has copied from Doctor Preuss . They amount to this , that the house of Brandenburg had some ancient pretensions to Silesia , and had in the previous century been compelled ...
... length the pleas which the compiler of the Memoirs before us has copied from Doctor Preuss . They amount to this , that the house of Brandenburg had some ancient pretensions to Silesia , and had in the previous century been compelled ...
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... length he sent her a message which If she would could be regarded only as an insult . but let him have Silesia , he would , he said , stand by her against any power which should try to deprive her of her other dominions ; as if he was ...
... length he sent her a message which If she would could be regarded only as an insult . but let him have Silesia , he would , he said , stand by her against any power which should try to deprive her of her other dominions ; as if he was ...
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... lengths to which his father never thought of carry- ing it , cleared it at the same time from the absurdities with which his father had encumbered it . The King's first object was to have a great , efficient , and well - trained army ...
... lengths to which his father never thought of carry- ing it , cleared it at the same time from the absurdities with which his father had encumbered it . The King's first object was to have a great , efficient , and well - trained army ...
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... length a rival was announced . Old Crébillon , who , many years before , had obtained some theatrical success , and who had long been forgotten , came forth from his garret in one of the meanest lanes near the Rue St. Antoine , and was ...
... length a rival was announced . Old Crébillon , who , many years before , had obtained some theatrical success , and who had long been forgotten , came forth from his garret in one of the meanest lanes near the Rue St. Antoine , and was ...
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... length the illustrious prisoner regained his liberty , the prospect before him was but dreary . He was an exile both from the country of his birth and from the country of his adoption . The French government had taken offence at his ...
... length the illustrious prisoner regained his liberty , the prospect before him was but dreary . He was an exile both from the country of his birth and from the country of his adoption . The French government had taken offence at his ...
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