The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Volumen4Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1894 |
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... English miles : a sluggish brook , called of Laugwitz , from the village of that name which lies some way across , is on his right hand ; sluggish , boggy ; stagnating towards the Oder in those parts : -improved farm- ing has , in our ...
... English miles : a sluggish brook , called of Laugwitz , from the village of that name which lies some way across , is on his right hand ; sluggish , boggy ; stagnating towards the Oder in those parts : -improved farm- ing has , in our ...
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... English government to grant him a subsidy of £ 670,000 , which became an annual grant . But the Empress Elizabeth , daughter of Peter the Great of Russia , was his most inveterate enemy . In the depth of winter , Count Fermor , with an ...
... English government to grant him a subsidy of £ 670,000 , which became an annual grant . But the Empress Elizabeth , daughter of Peter the Great of Russia , was his most inveterate enemy . In the depth of winter , Count Fermor , with an ...
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... English and Hanoverian army was in Western Germany , and might be able to prevent the French troops from attacking Prussia . The Russians , confined by their snows , would probably not stir till the spring was far advanced . Saxony was ...
... English and Hanoverian army was in Western Germany , and might be able to prevent the French troops from attacking Prussia . The Russians , confined by their snows , would probably not stir till the spring was far advanced . Saxony was ...
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... English miles , he cut a canal , which still bears his name . After seven years of peaceful industry , war broke out between Charles Gustavus of Sweden and the king of Poland , and Frederic William was compelled to join his army to the ...
... English miles , he cut a canal , which still bears his name . After seven years of peaceful industry , war broke out between Charles Gustavus of Sweden and the king of Poland , and Frederic William was compelled to join his army to the ...
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... alliance by marriage . Henry sought a bride for his son Otto , and asked for the sister of the English king . Athelstan sent , not one , but two of his sisters , and Edith 72 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS . The German Fatherland.
... alliance by marriage . Henry sought a bride for his son Otto , and asked for the sister of the English king . Athelstan sent , not one , but two of his sisters , and Edith 72 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS . The German Fatherland.
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Página 388 - ... militia,— our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 388 - ... these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Página 349 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 352 - The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time, is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
Página 337 - She entreats us to cultivate a propitious soil, where that generous plant which first sprung up and grew in England, but is now withered by the poisonous blasts of Scottish tyranny, may revive and flourish, sheltering under its salubrious and interminable shade all the unfortunate of the human race.
Página 351 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 333 - Colony to such declaration, and to whatever measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances, and a Confederation of the Colonies, at such time and in the manner as to them shall seem best: Provided, That the power of forming Government for, and the regulations of the internal concerns of each Colony, be left to the respective Colonial Legislatures.
Página 64 - I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Página 375 - The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice, in this particular.
Página 291 - With the hure, as himself calls it, or black boar's-head, fit to be "shaken" as a senatorial portent? Through whose shaggy beetle-brows, and rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled face, there look natural ugliness, smallpox, incontinence, bankruptcy, — and burning fire of genius; like comet-fire glaring fuliginous through murkiest confusions?