The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... patriotic sense . He gained great distine- tion by founding the university of Gottingen , which he richly endowed , A. D. 1737. Royal Hanover no longer condescended to send her subjects to the little university of Helmstædt in ...
... patriotic sense . He gained great distine- tion by founding the university of Gottingen , which he richly endowed , A. D. 1737. Royal Hanover no longer condescended to send her subjects to the little university of Helmstædt in ...
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... patriotic pride of Lessing , the study of the classics and of English literature , served as a guard against French exagger- ation , which , nevertheless , exercised but too powerful an in- fluence upon the German character . Voltaire ...
... patriotic pride of Lessing , the study of the classics and of English literature , served as a guard against French exagger- ation , which , nevertheless , exercised but too powerful an in- fluence upon the German character . Voltaire ...
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... by birth and her servile tool . A foreboding of the dreadful doom awaiting their country was roused by this stroke of Russian policy in the bosom of some patriotic Poles , who confederated for 80 FREDERICK SANSPAREIL .
... by birth and her servile tool . A foreboding of the dreadful doom awaiting their country was roused by this stroke of Russian policy in the bosom of some patriotic Poles , who confederated for 80 FREDERICK SANSPAREIL .
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... patriotic Poles , who confederated for the purpose of dethroning the favourite of the foreign autocrat . Catherine , however , sent one of her armies into the wretched country , which was by her orders , by the orders of the self ...
... patriotic Poles , who confederated for the purpose of dethroning the favourite of the foreign autocrat . Catherine , however , sent one of her armies into the wretched country , which was by her orders , by the orders of the self ...
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... patriotism , count . In 1785 , he was , for a third time , led by his fixed idea for the extension of his domains , so little consistent with his cha- racter , so noted for humanity in all other respects , to renew negotiations with ...
... patriotism , count . In 1785 , he was , for a third time , led by his fixed idea for the extension of his domains , so little consistent with his cha- racter , so noted for humanity in all other respects , to renew negotiations with ...
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