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... whole people leaving their homes , and flying with the little property they could carry with them , was a spectacle so affecting that even the rudest soldier in our army could not behold it unmoved : they wept . " The nuns of St Clair ...
... whole people leaving their homes , and flying with the little property they could carry with them , was a spectacle so affecting that even the rudest soldier in our army could not behold it unmoved : they wept . " The nuns of St Clair ...
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... whole , Mitchell is right in his estimate of the man who made all Europe tremble for a period of nearly fifteen years . But at the same time there can be no doubt that Mitchell , in not a few cases , was led too far by his moral ...
... whole , Mitchell is right in his estimate of the man who made all Europe tremble for a period of nearly fifteen years . But at the same time there can be no doubt that Mitchell , in not a few cases , was led too far by his moral ...
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... whole life was devoted to earnest endeavours to make the soldiers of his native land models for all nations , not only in acts of valour and chivalrous generosity - for these they have shown at all times - but in intellectual culture ...
... whole life was devoted to earnest endeavours to make the soldiers of his native land models for all nations , not only in acts of valour and chivalrous generosity - for these they have shown at all times - but in intellectual culture ...
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... whole order to which the offender belonged . It is also said that Zisca obtained from Wenzeslaus a commission empowering him to demand redress for the death of Huss ; a document which the King , who knew his chamberlain's want of means ...
... whole order to which the offender belonged . It is also said that Zisca obtained from Wenzeslaus a commission empowering him to demand redress for the death of Huss ; a document which the King , who knew his chamberlain's want of means ...
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... whole of his long and eventful reign . In December following his brother's death , the King of Hungary and of the Romans advanced to Brünn , in Moravia , where on his summons he was met by deputies from Prague and from the rest of the ...
... whole of his long and eventful reign . In December following his brother's death , the King of Hungary and of the Romans advanced to Brünn , in Moravia , where on his summons he was met by deputies from Prague and from the rest of the ...
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action admiration advance adversaries afterwards Albanian allies already Archduke arms artillery assailants attack augmented Aulic Council Austrian Author battle Bayard Bourbon brave brilliant British called campaign Captain cause cavalry Charles XII combat command conduct Count Crown 8vo defeated distinguished Duchess Duchy of Milan Duke of Alba Edition Emperor enemy fame favour Fcap field field-marshal fire followed forced fortress fortune fought France Frederick French army gained gallant gallantry German hand head honour Hussites Imperial infantry Italy King King of Sweden lady landsknechte letters Louis Louis XIV manner Marlborough Marshal Marshal Saxe Massena military Mitchell monarch Napoleon never noble occasion officers party period person Philip possession Prince Eugene rank regiment rendered retired Russian Saxon Scanderbeg Schulenburg sent siege SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON soldiers soon sovereign Spanish success Suwaroff Swiss sword tion took troops Turks victory vols wounded young Zisca
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.