The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Zväzok 160A. Constable, 1884 |
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... death of the Duc d'Enghien was , the Comte declared , one of callous indifference , and this , we think , is extremely probable . All that can be certainly known is that Talleyrand announced the consummation of this cruel murder with ...
... death of the Duc d'Enghien was , the Comte declared , one of callous indifference , and this , we think , is extremely probable . All that can be certainly known is that Talleyrand announced the consummation of this cruel murder with ...
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... death had found them ; sometimes they appeared in ranks of ten or twelve men , fallen in the military formation they had held in life ; some were scattered up and down and along the road , so that the carriage - wheels could scarcely ...
... death had found them ; sometimes they appeared in ranks of ten or twelve men , fallen in the military formation they had held in life ; some were scattered up and down and along the road , so that the carriage - wheels could scarcely ...
Strana 65
... death of the Earl of Athole at Haddington in 1242 , and the older Scottish historians and genealogists generally represent them as having been almost extirpated , certainly expatriated , in consequence of that event . There is no reason ...
... death of the Earl of Athole at Haddington in 1242 , and the older Scottish historians and genealogists generally represent them as having been almost extirpated , certainly expatriated , in consequence of that event . There is no reason ...
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... death of his father , and was natu- rally a man of a vigorous type of character . When but twenty - one years of age , he had received from King James the honour of knighthood , on the occasion of that monarch's visit to Scotland in ...
... death of his father , and was natu- rally a man of a vigorous type of character . When but twenty - one years of age , he had received from King James the honour of knighthood , on the occasion of that monarch's visit to Scotland in ...
Strana 73
... its horrors . * History of England , vol . iii . p . 518. On the authority of Dr. Johnson ! Lord Macaulay has been equally unfortunate as regards the Sir John Grant , at his death in 1637 , 1884 . 73 The Chiefs of Grant .
... its horrors . * History of England , vol . iii . p . 518. On the authority of Dr. Johnson ! Lord Macaulay has been equally unfortunate as regards the Sir John Grant , at his death in 1637 , 1884 . 73 The Chiefs of Grant .
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