History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... France on the East Indian affairs And on the American boundary Earl of Albemarle , Ambassador at Paris The King's journey to Hanover 37 38 ib . 39 40 ib . ib . 41 42 ib . 43 · ib . - 45 - 46 Capture of the Alcide and the Lys Defeat and ...
... France on the East Indian affairs And on the American boundary Earl of Albemarle , Ambassador at Paris The King's journey to Hanover 37 38 ib . 39 40 ib . ib . 41 42 ib . 43 · ib . - 45 - 46 Capture of the Alcide and the Lys Defeat and ...
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... France Danger of the King of Prussia Project of alliance between Austria and France Madame de Pompadour - Treaty signed at Versailles The Czarina Elizabeth Augustus , King of Poland Convention between England and Prussia Commencement of ...
... France Danger of the King of Prussia Project of alliance between Austria and France Madame de Pompadour - Treaty signed at Versailles The Czarina Elizabeth Augustus , King of Poland Convention between England and Prussia Commencement of ...
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... France The works at Cherbourg destroyed Action at St. Cast Campaign of Prince Ferdinand Battle of Crefeld Siege of Olmütz by the King of Prussia - His victory over the Russians at Zorndorf Battle of Hochkirchen Death of Field - Marshal ...
... France The works at Cherbourg destroyed Action at St. Cast Campaign of Prince Ferdinand Battle of Crefeld Siege of Olmütz by the King of Prussia - His victory over the Russians at Zorndorf Battle of Hochkirchen Death of Field - Marshal ...
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... France As a metace ver against Spain ༄ ་་་ *** Temzie - 234 - 236 - - 237 ib . - 239 - ib . 240 - 241 ib . 242 XXVIII- Talend many of Lori Sine 244 245 ib . - 246 ib . 247 ib . 248 249 ib . 250 251 252 ib . 253 254 At the organs ...
... France As a metace ver against Spain ༄ ་་་ *** Temzie - 234 - 236 - - 237 ib . - 239 - ib . 240 - 241 ib . 242 XXVIII- Talend many of Lori Sine 244 245 ib . - 246 ib . 247 ib . 248 249 ib . 250 251 252 ib . 253 254 At the organs ...
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... France The Duke of Bedford at Paris Terms agreed upon News of the reduction of the Havanna Difference in the British Cabinet Preliminaries signed at Fontainebleau Charge against Lord Bute Ministerial changes And resignations at Court ...
... France The Duke of Bedford at Paris Terms agreed upon News of the reduction of the Havanna Difference in the British Cabinet Preliminaries signed at Fontainebleau Charge against Lord Bute Ministerial changes And resignations at Court ...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ... Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) Affichage du livre entier - 1844 |
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Page 199 - The Ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession through a line of foot-guards, every seventh man bearing a torch, the horse-guards lining the outside, their officers with drawn sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, all this was very solemn.
Page 45 - ... rent, — but different as they are they meet at last, — " and long," he added with bitter irony, " long may they " continue united to the comfort of each other, and to the " glory, honour, and security of this nation ! " f Fox, tired and unanimated, replied only in a few words.
Page 151 - Wolfe alone — thus tradition has told us — repeated in a low voice to the other officers in his boat those beautiful stanzas with which a country church-yard inspired the muse of Gray. One noble line 'The paths. of glory lead but to the grave" — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning.
Page 138 - Indian race, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, had become estranged from the English and friendly to the French.
Page 23 - Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh (More silent far,) where kings and poets lie : Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Page 200 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle ; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 229 - I am sorry for it, since otherwise he would have certainly compelled us to leave him [Has ruled us, may not I say, with a rod of iron !] But if he be resolved to assume the office of exclusively advising his Majesty and directing the operations of the War, to what purpose are we called to this Council ? When he talks of being responsible to the People, he talks the language of the House of Commons; forgets that, at this Board, he is only responsible to the King.
Page 256 - Moncton's letter; there is more martial spirit in it than in half Thucydides, and in all the grand Cyrus. Do you think Demosthenes or Themistocles ever raised the...
Page xv - If I was surprised to find him there, I was still more astonished when he acquainted me with the motives which had induced him to hazard a journey to England at this juncture.
Page 96 - Walpole and Lord Chesterfield, and the language of both at this period is fraught with the deepest despondency. According to the former : "It is time for England to slip her cables and " float away into some unknown ocean...