Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... remained with the army in Flanders . Thousands of civil and military employés of the Empire were then returning to France from all quarters full of despair and hatred of the restored Government of the Bourbons . Mitchell himself tells ...
... remained with the army in Flanders . Thousands of civil and military employés of the Empire were then returning to France from all quarters full of despair and hatred of the restored Government of the Bourbons . Mitchell himself tells ...
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... remained attached throughout their lives . Such is the meagre outline of the life of one of the most re- markable men that Scotland has produced within the last cen- tury ; for the career of a soldier usually presents little that is of ...
... remained attached throughout their lives . Such is the meagre outline of the life of one of the most re- markable men that Scotland has produced within the last cen- tury ; for the career of a soldier usually presents little that is of ...
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... remained under the paternal roof , assisting his father in the administration of the moderate , though unen- cumbered , domain they possessed . An accident in boy- hood deprived him of the use of his right eye ; but it is a mistake to ...
... remained under the paternal roof , assisting his father in the administration of the moderate , though unen- cumbered , domain they possessed . An accident in boy- hood deprived him of the use of his right eye ; but it is a mistake to ...
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... remained heathens ; the few attempts made by their western neighbours to convert them to Christianity failed completely ; and it was not till the arrival of two monks , Cyrillus and Methodius , sent from Constantinople by the Empress ...
... remained heathens ; the few attempts made by their western neighbours to convert them to Christianity failed completely ; and it was not till the arrival of two monks , Cyrillus and Methodius , sent from Constantinople by the Empress ...
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... remained attached to their own faith hurled every unfortunate Hussite whom they captured into the dark abyss of their mines . Sixteen hundred Hussites are said to have perished in these fright- ful caverns in the course of one year ...
... remained attached to their own faith hurled every unfortunate Hussite whom they captured into the dark abyss of their mines . Sixteen hundred Hussites are said to have perished in these fright- ful caverns in the course of one year ...
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Passagens conhecidas
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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.