The Quarterly review, Volumen 13Murray, 1815 |
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... France à la Chine , attaché au Ministère des Relations exté- rieures , Correspondant de la première et de la troi- sième Classe de l'Institut III . A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland , drawn up from the Communications ...
... France à la Chine , attaché au Ministère des Relations exté- rieures , Correspondant de la première et de la troi- sième Classe de l'Institut III . A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland , drawn up from the Communications ...
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... of Welling- ton , from the Period of his first Achievements in India , down to his Invasion of France , and the Peace of Paris in 1814. By George Elliott , Esq . - 315 QUARTERLY THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . APRIL , 1815 . ART . CONTENTS .
... of Welling- ton , from the Period of his first Achievements in India , down to his Invasion of France , and the Peace of Paris in 1814. By George Elliott , Esq . - 315 QUARTERLY THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . APRIL , 1815 . ART . CONTENTS .
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... France , full of enthusiasm , and drunk as it were with the tumult which usually accompanies the departure of an army , we conversed at table in our mirth of the dangers and privations which awaited in 2 Miot's Mémoires de l'Expédition ...
... France , full of enthusiasm , and drunk as it were with the tumult which usually accompanies the departure of an army , we conversed at table in our mirth of the dangers and privations which awaited in 2 Miot's Mémoires de l'Expédition ...
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... France , of her strength , and of her means . ' They who remembered the naval power of England had also a deep sense of her weakness ; for every thing depended upon their escaping the English fleet ; and even when the pomp and the stir ...
... France , of her strength , and of her means . ' They who remembered the naval power of England had also a deep sense of her weakness ; for every thing depended upon their escaping the English fleet ; and even when the pomp and the stir ...
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... France : Alexander's tomb was instantly marked out by Denon and Dolomieu ; and others , perhaps , thought of realising the plan , which Maillet proposed in Louis XIVth's reign , of removing Pompey's Pillar to Paris . The soldiers ...
... France : Alexander's tomb was instantly marked out by Denon and Dolomieu ; and others , perhaps , thought of realising the plan , which Maillet proposed in Louis XIVth's reign , of removing Pompey's Pillar to Paris . The soldiers ...
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