The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... French Revolution , with In- dex . Frontispiece . Mignet's French Revolution from 1789 to 1814. Portrait . Milton's Prose Works , with Index . Portraits . In 5 vols . Im- Mitford's ( Miss ) Our Village . proved Ed . , complete ...
... French Revolution , with In- dex . Frontispiece . Mignet's French Revolution from 1789 to 1814. Portrait . Milton's Prose Works , with Index . Portraits . In 5 vols . Im- Mitford's ( Miss ) Our Village . proved Ed . , complete ...
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... French influence gained ground . Thomas Massner , a councillor of Coire , whose son had been carried off as an hostage by the French in the vicinity of Geneva , in retaliation , seized the person of the grand - prior of Vendome , who ...
... French influence gained ground . Thomas Massner , a councillor of Coire , whose son had been carried off as an hostage by the French in the vicinity of Geneva , in retaliation , seized the person of the grand - prior of Vendome , who ...
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... French , however , were so insolent in their demands that Eugene , acting on his own responsibility , quitted Rastadt , where the congress was being held , upon which the aged despot at Paris , fearing lest rage might at length rouse ...
... French , however , were so insolent in their demands that Eugene , acting on his own responsibility , quitted Rastadt , where the congress was being held , upon which the aged despot at Paris , fearing lest rage might at length rouse ...
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... French . The Lothringians had long and gloriously defended them- selves under their ancient dukes against the French . They had been shamefully abandoned by the empire , and , without any blame attaching to them , been made the victims ...
... French . The Lothringians had long and gloriously defended them- selves under their ancient dukes against the French . They had been shamefully abandoned by the empire , and , without any blame attaching to them , been made the victims ...
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... French fashion , and " The Marquis dismissed with Blows , " a piece eminently anti - Gallic , to be represented on the stage . Often , when , like the other German princes , tempted by the crafty French court , would he exclaim , " I ...
... French fashion , and " The Marquis dismissed with Blows , " a piece eminently anti - Gallic , to be represented on the stage . Often , when , like the other German princes , tempted by the crafty French court , would he exclaim , " I ...
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