Daniel Defoe: Ambition & InnovationUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1986 - 299 pages |
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Page 94
... Sweden's empire in either . The reader felt he was reading something serious and artful that , at its best , com- bined the objectivity of journalism and history with the intimacy of memoirs . After a brief explanation of the Great ...
... Sweden's empire in either . The reader felt he was reading something serious and artful that , at its best , com- bined the objectivity of journalism and history with the intimacy of memoirs . After a brief explanation of the Great ...
Page 95
... Sweden . The result was what Denmark wanted : the British navy became unofficially involved , and the allies ' naval supremacy over Sweden was clear . Sweden lost her last two German possessions in the winter of 1716 and , thereby ...
... Sweden . The result was what Denmark wanted : the British navy became unofficially involved , and the allies ' naval supremacy over Sweden was clear . Sweden lost her last two German possessions in the winter of 1716 and , thereby ...
Page 104
... Swedes suffered the same disadvantages at both battles and that the Russians avoided every earlier mistake ; through him , Defoe launches a satiric attack reminiscent of his finest 1712 pamphlets on Charles XII : " Now had the King of ...
... Swedes suffered the same disadvantages at both battles and that the Russians avoided every earlier mistake ; through him , Defoe launches a satiric attack reminiscent of his finest 1712 pamphlets on Charles XII : " Now had the King of ...
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