Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... and simplicity , which is singularly graceful in a man who , having done great things , sits down to relate them . On the whole , however , none of his REVERENCE FOR VOLTAIRE 15 writings are so agreeable to us 14 FREDERIC THE GREAT.
... and simplicity , which is singularly graceful in a man who , having done great things , sits down to relate them . On the whole , however , none of his REVERENCE FOR VOLTAIRE 15 writings are so agreeable to us 14 FREDERIC THE GREAT.
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... whole civilised world . Even if no positive stipulations on this subject had existed , the arrangement was one which no good man would have been willing to disturb . It was a peace- able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to ...
... whole civilised world . Even if no positive stipulations on this subject had existed , the arrangement was one which no good man would have been willing to disturb . It was a peace- able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to ...
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... whole open country was subjugated : no enemy ventured to encounter the King in the field ; and , before the end of January 1741 , he returned to receive the congratula- tions of his subjects at Berlin . Had the Silesian question been ...
... whole open country was subjugated : no enemy ventured to encounter the King in the field ; and , before the end of January 1741 , he returned to receive the congratula- tions of his subjects at Berlin . Had the Silesian question been ...
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... whole world sprang to arms . On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe , the blood of the column of Fontenoy , the blood of the mountaineers who were ...
... whole world sprang to arms . On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe , the blood of the column of Fontenoy , the blood of the mountaineers who were ...
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... whole force against France and Bavaria . She was everywhere triumphant . The French were compelled to evacuate Bohemia , and with difficulty effected their escape . The whole line of their retreat might be tracked by the corpses of ...
... whole force against France and Bavaria . She was everywhere triumphant . The French were compelled to evacuate Bohemia , and with difficulty effected their escape . The whole line of their retreat might be tracked by the corpses of ...
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