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... Napoleon , and published in three volumes octavo . These foreign works , with the ' Marlborough Corre- spondence , ' edited by Sir George Murray , and the Life of him , in six volumes , by Mr Archdeacon Coxe , furnished all the ...
... Napoleon , and published in three volumes octavo . These foreign works , with the ' Marlborough Corre- spondence , ' edited by Sir George Murray , and the Life of him , in six volumes , by Mr Archdeacon Coxe , furnished all the ...
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... Napoleon , would have worked out the great change in our military defences which has since occurred . I could easily see from the style of Sidney Herbert's conversation that his talents were in a peculiar manner administrative , and ...
... Napoleon , would have worked out the great change in our military defences which has since occurred . I could easily see from the style of Sidney Herbert's conversation that his talents were in a peculiar manner administrative , and ...
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... Napoleon on the throne of France . This important event forcibly arrested my attention , and produced a new effect on my literary pursuits . I beheld in it the completion of the last act in the French Revolution , and an additional ...
... Napoleon on the throne of France . This important event forcibly arrested my attention , and produced a new effect on my literary pursuits . I beheld in it the completion of the last act in the French Revolution , and an additional ...
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... Napoleon was a believer ; that spirits were frequently called up at small parties of the faithful at the Tuileries ; that the great Napoleon was fre- quently conversed with , and that his hand was sometimes given from behind a curtain ...
... Napoleon was a believer ; that spirits were frequently called up at small parties of the faithful at the Tuileries ; that the great Napoleon was fre- quently conversed with , and that his hand was sometimes given from behind a curtain ...
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... Napoleon , deemed the opportunity favour- able for renewing its ambitious designs on Turkey , and brought on the Crimean war . The hospitality of our kind and accomplished friend , Mr Stirling of Keir , M.P. for Perthshire , made us ...
... Napoleon , deemed the opportunity favour- able for renewing its ambitious designs on Turkey , and brought on the Crimean war . The hospitality of our kind and accomplished friend , Mr Stirling of Keir , M.P. for Perthshire , made us ...
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Página 541 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Portraits and Maps, 30s. Essays : Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s. ACROSS FRANCE IN A CARAVAN : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM BORDEAUX TO GENOA IN THE " ESCARGOT," taken in the Winter 1889-90. By the Author of