Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers: Being a Collection of Treatises, in Various Departments of KnowledgeC. Knight & Company, 1841 - 424 páginas |
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... districts , where they made a stand in some churches and other buildings ; but being followed by the troops of the Convention , they were obliged to surrender , and were disarmed in the night . The Convention did not use their victory ...
... districts , where they made a stand in some churches and other buildings ; but being followed by the troops of the Convention , they were obliged to surrender , and were disarmed in the night . The Convention did not use their victory ...
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... districts , besides a contribution of one hundred millions of francs . This war , which was to have checked the preponderance of Napoleon in Italy , left that country entirely at his disposal , and established his influence over a great ...
... districts , besides a contribution of one hundred millions of francs . This war , which was to have checked the preponderance of Napoleon in Italy , left that country entirely at his disposal , and established his influence over a great ...
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... districts the kingdom of Westphalia , 18th of August , and gave it to his brother Jerome , who took up his residence at Cassel . Soon after , the Prince Regent of Portugal having refused to enforce the Berlin decree against England ...
... districts the kingdom of Westphalia , 18th of August , and gave it to his brother Jerome , who took up his residence at Cassel . Soon after , the Prince Regent of Portugal having refused to enforce the Berlin decree against England ...
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... districts , to the amount of about two millions and a half of inhabitants . The brave Tyrolese were abandoned to their fate . Hofer and others of their chiefs were seized by the French , taken to Man- tua , and there shot . ( Life of ...
... districts , to the amount of about two millions and a half of inhabitants . The brave Tyrolese were abandoned to their fate . Hofer and others of their chiefs were seized by the French , taken to Man- tua , and there shot . ( Life of ...
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... districts towards Kaluga , where the Russian army was now posted . The French therefore could get no provisions , and they were obliged to live chiefly on the flesh of their horses , which was salted down . Napoleon remained among the ...
... districts towards Kaluga , where the Russian army was now posted . The French therefore could get no provisions , and they were obliged to live chiefly on the flesh of their horses , which was salted down . Napoleon remained among the ...
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Página 29 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 26 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have devoted yours.
Página 28 - Thou art the grave where buried love doth live, Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone, Who all their parts of me to thee did give ; That due of many now is thine alone : Their images I lov'd I view in thee. And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
Página 28 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored...
Página 27 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still. The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Página 22 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 102 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Página 158 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Página 105 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Página 26 - But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old ? O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told : Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.