The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1830 |
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... considered or managed that it may not start up a refractory M. de witness against the wished for complexion of the case . Bourrienne gives us clearly to understand , that an inconsistency between his statements and those of the St ...
... considered or managed that it may not start up a refractory M. de witness against the wished for complexion of the case . Bourrienne gives us clearly to understand , that an inconsistency between his statements and those of the St ...
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pupils brought up with a luxury inconsistent , as he considered it , both with the profession of a soldier and the means of the parents of the youths , who were ordinarily the sons of poor gentlemen , Bonaparte addressed a Memoir to the ...
pupils brought up with a luxury inconsistent , as he considered it , both with the profession of a soldier and the means of the parents of the youths , who were ordinarily the sons of poor gentlemen , Bonaparte addressed a Memoir to the ...
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... considered the guide and key of his after - conduct . His position at the moment of signing the preliminaries of peace was singular ; the difficulty of it great ; nevertheless vast events are determined by small circumstances , even to ...
... considered the guide and key of his after - conduct . His position at the moment of signing the preliminaries of peace was singular ; the difficulty of it great ; nevertheless vast events are determined by small circumstances , even to ...
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... considered that he ought to be provided with a travelling library as well as a moveable academy of sciences , for such was the body of savans that accompanied his army , and he accordingly drew out a list of the books he wished to take ...
... considered that he ought to be provided with a travelling library as well as a moveable academy of sciences , for such was the body of savans that accompanied his army , and he accordingly drew out a list of the books he wished to take ...
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... considered that to be stationary was to be sinking , and hence his unceasing desire to march en avant , " A new government , " he would further remark , " must dazzle and astonish : the moment its éclat ceases it is lost . " There is so ...
... considered that to be stationary was to be sinking , and hence his unceasing desire to march en avant , " A new government , " he would further remark , " must dazzle and astonish : the moment its éclat ceases it is lost . " There is so ...
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Page 306 - ARTICLE x. The Sublime Porte, whilst declaring its entire adhesion to the stipulations of the treaty concluded in London on the 24th of June, (the 6th of July...
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