Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Duke de Saldanha: With Selections from His Correspondence, Volumen 2

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Página 141 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Página 20 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Página 241 - ... in the following chapter, have to make allusion to a breach in their friendship which led to some of the most important events in the life of Saldanha, The Marshal, when he entered the Home Office, made strict inquiries respecting the state of the public lunatic asylum — the Hospital de S. Jose'. He found it in a most deplorable condition. The wretched maniacs were treated with that rigour, which, indeed, was, in private as well as in public establishments, then almost general throughout Europe....
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Página 100 - ... of His Council, and of the Council of State, Senator and Grandee of the Empire, Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, of the Legion of Honor of France, and of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus of Sardinia, officer of the Imperial order of the...
Página 28 - HISTORY OF FRANCE; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire, 1852.
Página 21 - MUSTERS' (CAPT.) Patagonians; a Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro.
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Página 13 - EGYPT, including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile through Egypt and Nubia, Alexandria, Cwiro, and Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Pyramids, the Peninsula of Sinai, the Oases, the Fyoom, &c. Map. Post 8vo.
Página 28 - MADAME DE STAEL: A STUDY OF HER LIFE AND TIMES. THE FIRST REVOLUTION AND THE FIRST EMPIRE.

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