Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... peace of Westphalia several valuable possessions , and among them the rich city and district of Magde- burg ; and he left to his son Frederic a principality as considerable as any which was not called a kingdom . Frederic aspired to the ...
... peace of Westphalia several valuable possessions , and among them the rich city and district of Magde- burg ; and he left to his son Frederic a principality as considerable as any which was not called a kingdom . Frederic aspired to the ...
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... place among the European powers , altogether out of pro- portion to her extent and population , by means of a strong military organization . Strict economy enabled him to keep up a peace establishment of sixty thousand.
... place among the European powers , altogether out of pro- portion to her extent and population , by means of a strong military organization . Strict economy enabled him to keep up a peace establishment of sixty thousand.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. him to keep up a peace establishment of sixty thousand troops . These troops were disciplined in such a manner , that , placed beside them , the household regi- ments of Versailles and St ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. him to keep up a peace establishment of sixty thousand troops . These troops were disciplined in such a manner , that , placed beside them , the household regi- ments of Versailles and St ...
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... peace , liberty , and the happiness which a good mind derives from the happiness of others , had imposed on some who should have known better . Those who thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after FĂ©nelon's pattern . Others ...
... peace , liberty , and the happiness which a good mind derives from the happiness of others , had imposed on some who should have known better . Those who thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after FĂ©nelon's pattern . Others ...
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... peace- able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to the great population whose happiness was chiefly concerned . It was an arrangement which made no change in the distribution of power among the states of Christendom . It was ...
... peace- able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to the great population whose happiness was chiefly concerned . It was an arrangement which made no change in the distribution of power among the states of Christendom . It was ...
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