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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... never listen , and when his father urged them , only answered : " Declare my birth illegitimate , and I give up the throne to my brother . " At length , driven almost to despair , young Frederic de- termined to seek refuge in England ...
... never listen , and when his father urged them , only answered : " Declare my birth illegitimate , and I give up the throne to my brother . " At length , driven almost to despair , young Frederic de- termined to seek refuge in England ...
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... word to the rear- ward to dash forward at their swiftest , the Austrian Army might have been cut in pieces here , and never have got 3376 FREDERIC THE GREAT . 17 together to try battle 16 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
... word to the rear- ward to dash forward at their swiftest , the Austrian Army might have been cut in pieces here , and never have got 3376 FREDERIC THE GREAT . 17 together to try battle 16 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
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... never been in fire , but whom Friedrich Wilhelm had drilled for twenty years ) stand their ground , in this distraction of the Horse . Not even the two outlying Grenadier Battalions will give away ; those poor intercalated Grenadiers ...
... never been in fire , but whom Friedrich Wilhelm had drilled for twenty years ) stand their ground , in this distraction of the Horse . Not even the two outlying Grenadier Battalions will give away ; those poor intercalated Grenadiers ...
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... never saw anything more beautiful . can well say , I never in my life saw anything more beautiful . They marched with the greatest steadiness , arrow - straight , and their front like a line ( schnurgleich ) , as if they had been upon ...
... never saw anything more beautiful . can well say , I never in my life saw anything more beautiful . They marched with the greatest steadiness , arrow - straight , and their front like a line ( schnurgleich ) , as if they had been upon ...
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... never hot . The loss of men , on both sides , was not far from equal , and rather in favour of the Austrian side : -Aus- trians counted in killed , wounded and missing , 4,410 men ; Prussians , 4,613 ; -but the Prussians bivouacked on ...
... never hot . The loss of men , on both sides , was not far from equal , and rather in favour of the Austrian side : -Aus- trians counted in killed , wounded and missing , 4,410 men ; Prussians , 4,613 ; -but the Prussians bivouacked on ...
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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?