Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... hand- some man , and welcome everywhere on account of his great conversational powers and the vast extent of his information . He preserved his youthful buoyancy of spirits -- a great virtue in a military man - to the end of his life ...
... hand- some man , and welcome everywhere on account of his great conversational powers and the vast extent of his information . He preserved his youthful buoyancy of spirits -- a great virtue in a military man - to the end of his life ...
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... hand of a soldier . I hope , and I am sure every friend of true and impartial his- tory does so with me , that you may yet have many opportunities of writing on similar subjects . " Sir Robert Peel wrote to the author in reference to ...
... hand of a soldier . I hope , and I am sure every friend of true and impartial his- tory does so with me , that you may yet have many opportunities of writing on similar subjects . " Sir Robert Peel wrote to the author in reference to ...
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... hand , to dis- arm while dark and threatening times were impending . While they were deliberating on the part to be taken , Zisca , whose time had now arrived , appeared among them . " Your weakness , " he said , " surprises me . I know ...
... hand , to dis- arm while dark and threatening times were impending . While they were deliberating on the part to be taken , Zisca , whose time had now arrived , appeared among them . " Your weakness , " he said , " surprises me . I know ...
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... enormity . Nor was the commission of such horrors confined to one party . The Catholics assailed took fierce vengeance wherever they had power . Every Utra- quist priest who fell into their hands perished at the ZISCA THE HUSSITE .
... enormity . Nor was the commission of such horrors confined to one party . The Catholics assailed took fierce vengeance wherever they had power . Every Utra- quist priest who fell into their hands perished at the ZISCA THE HUSSITE .
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John Mitchell, Leonhard Schmitz. quist priest who fell into their hands perished at the stake ; and the miners of Kuttenberg who remained attached to their own faith hurled every unfortunate Hussite whom they captured into the dark abyss ...
John Mitchell, Leonhard Schmitz. quist priest who fell into their hands perished at the stake ; and the miners of Kuttenberg who remained attached to their own faith hurled every unfortunate Hussite whom they captured into the dark abyss ...
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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.