Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... letters to the ' Times ' newspaper on promotion by purchase , in which he endeavoured to maintain the doctrine that this system , not to mention other evil consequences , was utterly destructive of military science . His ability and ...
... letters to the ' Times ' newspaper on promotion by purchase , in which he endeavoured to maintain the doctrine that this system , not to mention other evil consequences , was utterly destructive of military science . His ability and ...
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... letter of the 18th of October 1853 , addressed to Mitchell , says : - " Your work on Wallen- stein has sufficiently established your powers as an historian and historical investigator , and the one on Napoleon again proves this in the ...
... letter of the 18th of October 1853 , addressed to Mitchell , says : - " Your work on Wallen- stein has sufficiently established your powers as an historian and historical investigator , and the one on Napoleon again proves this in the ...
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... letters seem to show that he had received a good education for the period in which he lived . His gifts for action were of a high order , and he possessed in an eminent degree the qualities that bring men forward in troubled times . He ...
... letters seem to show that he had received a good education for the period in which he lived . His gifts for action were of a high order , and he possessed in an eminent degree the qualities that bring men forward in troubled times . He ...
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... letters . And it is more than probable that this mental cultivation , imperfect as it may have been , tended to soften the military manners of the age , and to call forth and strengthen that generosity of feeling for which he was so ...
... letters . And it is more than probable that this mental cultivation , imperfect as it may have been , tended to soften the military manners of the age , and to call forth and strengthen that generosity of feeling for which he was so ...
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... letter to Lautrec , " is bound to save the blood of his subjects , and even of his enemies , whenever it can be effected at the expense of gold . " A maxim very different from the one generally followed in the military system and policy ...
... letter to Lautrec , " is bound to save the blood of his subjects , and even of his enemies , whenever it can be effected at the expense of gold . " A maxim very different from the one generally followed in the military system and policy ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 358 - MACKENZIE. Studies in Roman Law. With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By LORD MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.
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.