The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough: With Some Account of His Contemporaries and of the War of the Succession, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1852 |
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... peace , 17. Ultimatum of the Allies , which is rejected by France , 18. Marlborough still labours to effect a pacification , 19. False accusation against Marlborough of having prevented the peace , 20. Resolution of the States - General ...
... peace , 17. Ultimatum of the Allies , which is rejected by France , 18. Marlborough still labours to effect a pacification , 19. False accusation against Marlborough of having prevented the peace , 20. Resolution of the States - General ...
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... peace by 33. Conditions of the preliminaries which were agreed to , 188 189 • ib . 190 191 192 194 ib . 195 196 198 199 200 201 • 34. Infamous libels with which Marlborough is assailed by the Tories , 35. Malignant misrepresentations ...
... peace by 33. Conditions of the preliminaries which were agreed to , 188 189 • ib . 190 191 192 194 ib . 195 196 198 199 200 201 • 34. Infamous libels with which Marlborough is assailed by the Tories , 35. Malignant misrepresentations ...
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... peace and fond of money , 317 71. Subsequent life and death of the Duchess of Marlborough , 319 CHAPTER XI . THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 1. Moral character of the Duke of Marlborough's wars , 321 2. Opposite interests and causes for which ...
... peace and fond of money , 317 71. Subsequent life and death of the Duchess of Marlborough , 319 CHAPTER XI . THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 1. Moral character of the Duke of Marlborough's wars , 321 2. Opposite interests and causes for which ...
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... peace , 407 36. His decided and indomitable character already appears , 408 40. Great effects of this stroke , • 43. Frederick's marvellous victories at Rosbach and Leuthen , 37. His great services to his kingdom during the next ten ...
... peace , 407 36. His decided and indomitable character already appears , 408 40. Great effects of this stroke , • 43. Frederick's marvellous victories at Rosbach and Leuthen , 37. His great services to his kingdom during the next ten ...
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... peace . 1709 . 7 . difficulties So painful had the situation of Godolphin become that he himself said , the life of a slave in the galleys was Increasing a paradise compared to his . * All his measures were of Godol- phin in the ...
... peace . 1709 . 7 . difficulties So painful had the situation of Godolphin become that he himself said , the life of a slave in the galleys was Increasing a paradise compared to his . * All his measures were of Godol- phin in the ...
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The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough: With Some Account of His ..., Volume 2 Archibald Alison Visualização integral - 1852 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alliance Allies army attack battalions battle Berwick besieged Blenheim Bolingbroke borough Bouchain Bourbon British cabinet campaign CHAP Charles command commenced conduct contest court Coxe Coxe's crown defence disaster dismissal Douai Duchess Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough Dutch effect efforts Elector enemy England English entirely Eugene Europe favour Flanders force fortress France French garrison Godolphin Hanover Hanoverian Harley head Hist honour hope House house of Bourbon hundred influence intrenchments King lines Lord Louis XIV Majesty Marl Marlbo Marshal Marshal Villars Masham ment military ministers ministry monarch Napoleon nation never noble object Parliament party peace Prince Prince of Hesse-Cassel Queen rendered resign resolution rough Rousset Scarpe Scheldt secret Shrewsbury side siege sovereign Spain squadrons St John success Sunderland thousand throne tion took Tories Tournay town treaty Treaty of Utrecht troops Utrecht victory vigour VIII Villars Whigs whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 86 - Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Página 87 - ... Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day : The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world...
Página 292 - O God of our salvation ; Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Página 331 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings.
Página 296 - When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming ; In the proudly-arched chapel the banners are beaming ; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a chief of the people should fall.
Página 86 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 296 - Thus it has pleased Almighty God,, to take out of this transitory world, into his mercy, the Most High, Mighty, and Noble Prince, John Duke of Maiiborough.
Página 275 - I die a Roman Catholic. I am in perfect charity with all the world — I thank God for it — even with, those of the present government who are most instrumental in my death.
Página 205 - ... from your service by a letter of your own hand, though I find by it that my enemies have been able to prevail with your Majesty to do it in the manner that is most injurious to me. And if their malice and inveteracy against me had not been more powerful with them than the consideration of your Majesty's honour and justice, they would not have influenced you to impute the occasion of my dismission to a false and malicious insinuation contrived by themselves, and made public, when there was no...
Página 387 - Marlborough was raised to the head of the army, and indeed of the confederacy, where he, a new, a private man, a subject, acquired by merit and by management a more deciding influence, than high birth, confirmed authority, and even the crown of Great Britain, had given to King William. Not only all the parts of that vast machine, the grand alliance, were kept more compact and entire, but a more rapid and vigorous motion was given to the whole, and, instead of languishing or disastrous campaigns,...