The Invasion of the Crimea: Transactions which brought on the war. 3d ed. 1863W. Blackwood and sons, 1863 |
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... command was yet more abundant ; for I do not recollect that to any one man in this country I have ever expressed any wish for the information which he might be able to give me , without receiving at once what I believe to be a full and ...
... command was yet more abundant ; for I do not recollect that to any one man in this country I have ever expressed any wish for the information which he might be able to give me , without receiving at once what I believe to be a full and ...
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... command under Prince Mentschikoff . The gifted young Russian officer who obtained for me these deeply interesting narratives , and who kindly translated them from their Russian originals , has not only conferred upon me an important ...
... command under Prince Mentschikoff . The gifted young Russian officer who obtained for me these deeply interesting narratives , and who kindly translated them from their Russian originals , has not only conferred upon me an important ...
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... command from the gentlest ministers of state ; but upon the whole , the interests , the passions , and foibles which lead to war are more likely to be found in one man than in the band of public servants which is called a ministry . A ...
... command from the gentlest ministers of state ; but upon the whole , the interests , the passions , and foibles which lead to war are more likely to be found in one man than in the band of public servants which is called a ministry . A ...
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... commands great armies , and has a crowd of hired courtiers at his side ; but he knows that if his skill and his fortune should both chance to fail him in the same hour , he would become a prisoner or a corpse . He hears , from behind ...
... commands great armies , and has a crowd of hired courtiers at his side ; but he knows that if his skill and his fortune should both chance to fail him in the same hour , he would become a prisoner or a corpse . He hears , from behind ...
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... command which carries with it nothing less than an Empire : and since the strength of every nation is relative , and is liable to be turned to nought by the aggran- disement of another Power , it was plain that no one among the nations ...
... command which carries with it nothing less than an Empire : and since the strength of every nation is relative , and is liable to be turned to nought by the aggran- disement of another Power , it was plain that no one among the nations ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
2d of December able action alliance arms army Assembly Austria barricade Bosphorus Boulevard brought called cause CHAP Christian Church in Turkey Colonel command Constantinople contrived counsels Count Nesselrode Czar Czar's danger Dardanelles declared demands despatch duty Eastern Papers Elysée Embassy Emperor Nicholas Empire engaged England English Ambassador English Government Europe Executive Government fleet Fleury force foreign four Powers France French Emperor give Greek Church hand Holy Places honour hour Ibid kind Lord Aberdeen Lord Stratford Louis Bonaparte Magnan massacre Maupas ment mind Morny nation nature negotiation Note officer Ottoman Ottoman Empire Paris peace perhaps Porte President Prince Louis Bonaparte Prince Mentschikoff prisoners question regard Reshid Pasha resistance Russia seems Sir Hamilton Sir Stratford slaughter soldiers St Arnaud St Petersburg statesmen Sultan thought tion treaty troops truth Turkish Government Turkish Ministers Turks Vienna warlike Western Powers whilst whole words
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Página 518 - It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous, and picturesque. The author's heart is thoroughly with his subject.