Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... already fully recognised and appreciated , when he resolved to devote his pen to the production of some great historical com- position . His first work of this kind was ' The Life of Wal- lenstein , Duke of Friedland ' ( London ...
... already fully recognised and appreciated , when he resolved to devote his pen to the production of some great historical com- position . His first work of this kind was ' The Life of Wal- lenstein , Duke of Friedland ' ( London ...
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... already find a bishopric erected at Prague in 791. As these missionaries and their successors came from the East , they preached the doctrine of the Greek , and not of the Roman Church ; and said nothing of the supremacy of the Pope ...
... already find a bishopric erected at Prague in 791. As these missionaries and their successors came from the East , they preached the doctrine of the Greek , and not of the Roman Church ; and said nothing of the supremacy of the Pope ...
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... already excited by their previous act of brutality , instantly turned against the building , burst open the gates , butchered all who resisted , and hurled thirteen senators out of the windows , to perish on the pikes of the infuri ...
... already excited by their previous act of brutality , instantly turned against the building , burst open the gates , butchered all who resisted , and hurled thirteen senators out of the windows , to perish on the pikes of the infuri ...
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... already to maintain with his small and insufficient band . Zisca and the people of Prague had invited Corybut , Prince of Lithuania , to ascend the throne of Bohemia . The invitation had been accepted , and the young prince had been ...
... already to maintain with his small and insufficient band . Zisca and the people of Prague had invited Corybut , Prince of Lithuania , to ascend the throne of Bohemia . The invitation had been accepted , and the young prince had been ...
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... already , as the best historians admit , more than seventy years of age . His followers thinking that victory would be acceptable to him even in death , instantly assaulted and carried the walls of Przibislaw . The town was as usual ...
... already , as the best historians admit , more than seventy years of age . His followers thinking that victory would be acceptable to him even in death , instantly assaulted and carried the walls of Przibislaw . The town was as usual ...
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Página 357 - OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE, From the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon.
Página 359 - Burton.— The History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection (1689—1748).
Página 231 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.