The Foreign Quarterly Review, 36. köideTreuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1846 |
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... whole slavish , puerile , foolish , or extrava- gant tone , of such works as those of Fain and Norvins ; but when , beyond the mere weaknesses of frail mortality , we take into account the peculiar faults and follies of French nature ...
... whole slavish , puerile , foolish , or extrava- gant tone , of such works as those of Fain and Norvins ; but when , beyond the mere weaknesses of frail mortality , we take into account the peculiar faults and follies of French nature ...
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... whole we may say , that the tone is moderate and gentlemanly ; that , though perfect justice is not on all occasions done to the French , nor the bungling of allies ( where they do bungle ) castigated with due severity , yet he is ...
... whole we may say , that the tone is moderate and gentlemanly ; that , though perfect justice is not on all occasions done to the French , nor the bungling of allies ( where they do bungle ) castigated with due severity , yet he is ...
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... whole population to arms , in 1813 , with the war - cry , not of national independence merely , but of liberty and constitutional rights , and by this means restoring the monarchy , suddenly fell back into its old slavish system of ...
... whole population to arms , in 1813 , with the war - cry , not of national independence merely , but of liberty and constitutional rights , and by this means restoring the monarchy , suddenly fell back into its old slavish system of ...
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... whole concentrated force , he sent against Ney's corps only detachment after detachment , so that surprised as they were , with their troops singularly scattered , the French had a real superiority of numbers actually engaged at the ...
... whole concentrated force , he sent against Ney's corps only detachment after detachment , so that surprised as they were , with their troops singularly scattered , the French had a real superiority of numbers actually engaged at the ...
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... whole campaign , and with a bold plunge facing in an entirely different direction , he cannot afford to lose . Let the reader attend to this , and the whole plan of one of the most beautiful war - games ever played will soon be clearly ...
... whole campaign , and with a bold plunge facing in an entirely different direction , he cannot afford to lose . Let the reader attend to this , and the whole plan of one of the most beautiful war - games ever played will soon be clearly ...
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