Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the Time of Louis XVI.Hurst and Blackett, 1863 |
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... hands of the enemy . By the capitulation of Madras , d'Estaing was released , and it was then that he openly manifested his predilection and capacity for the Navy . This predilection had always been his ; the cultivation of it had been ...
... hands of the enemy . By the capitulation of Madras , d'Estaing was released , and it was then that he openly manifested his predilection and capacity for the Navy . This predilection had always been his ; the cultivation of it had been ...
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... An account I have received this morning from a good hand says that on Thursday the Admiralty received a letter from Admiral Keppel , who was off the Land's End .... he hoped 10 THE FRENCH NAVY . to have an opportunity of.
... An account I have received this morning from a good hand says that on Thursday the Admiralty received a letter from Admiral Keppel , who was off the Land's End .... he hoped 10 THE FRENCH NAVY . to have an opportunity of.
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... hands on a few thousand sailors . De Maurepas was Minister of Marine in France until just before the Seven Years ' War . Owing , as beforesaid , to a ribald rhyme he then composed on the King's friendship ( " l'amour sans ailes " ) for ...
... hands on a few thousand sailors . De Maurepas was Minister of Marine in France until just before the Seven Years ' War . Owing , as beforesaid , to a ribald rhyme he then composed on the King's friendship ( " l'amour sans ailes " ) for ...
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... hands , to buy up large quantities of English timber , that the distress in England consequent upon American non - supply should be increased . Those of the Ministry who opposed this scheme were threatened into silence by its support ...
... hands , to buy up large quantities of English timber , that the distress in England consequent upon American non - supply should be increased . Those of the Ministry who opposed this scheme were threatened into silence by its support ...
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... hands of a certain mer- chant , to dispose of in the same manner . He gave a good deal of it , in bribes , to Garnier , the French Chargé d'Affaires in London , & c . And this part of his commission he executed so well , that no dis ...
... hands of a certain mer- chant , to dispose of in the same manner . He gave a good deal of it , in bribes , to Garnier , the French Chargé d'Affaires in London , & c . And this part of his commission he executed so well , that no dis ...
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Abbé afterwards American APPENDIX army Austria Brest British Cabinet of Versailles Cagliostro Cardinal de Rohan cause Church command Comte Count d'Artois Count d'Estaing Count de St Court Crown d'Orvilliers Dame daughter death declared Deum Duc de Chartres Duc de Choiseul Duchesse de Chartres eighteenth century enemy England English faith favour fêtes fleet Franklin Frenchmen Germain Girardin glory Guémenée hands hero honour hope Jesuits Kaunitz King of France King's knew Lafayette letter liberty Lord Cornwallis Louis XV Madame de Genlis Madame de Polignac Madame de Pompadour Madame du Barry Madame the Dauphiness Majesty Majesty's Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Marquis Maurepas ment Mesmer Minister Necker Oratorians Paris philosophy political Pope popular present Prince Princesse de Lamballe prisoner Prussia Queen of France Queen-Empress reign Rochambeau Rousseau royal sailed says Ségur ships siege soldiers Spain squadron tion troops Versailles Vienna Voltaire Washington wife young
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288. oldal - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
115. oldal - They directed it to be ornamented with suitable devices. Some of the principal actions of the war, in which you distinguished yourself by your bravery and conduct, are, therefore, represented upon it. These, with a few emblematic figures, all admirably well executed, make its principal value. By the help of the exquisite artists...
353. oldal - A character such as this is deserving of study, and his life ought to be written. Mrs. Oliphant has undertaken the work and has produced a biography of considerable merit. The author fully understands her hero, and sets forth the incidents of his career with the skill of a practised hand. The book is a good book on a most interesting theme.
356. oldal - THE LIFE OF JMW TURNER, RA, from Original Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians. By WALTER THORNBURY. 2 vols.
354. oldal - It is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing beautiful as well as striking pictures. Another feature for which Victor Hugo's book deserves high praise is Its perfect purity. Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare...
358. oldal - This is a very good and a very interesting work. It is designed to trace the career from boyhood to age of a perfect man — a Christian gentleman; and it abounds in incident both well and highly wrought. Throughout it is conceived in a high spirit, and •written with great ability. This cheap and handsome new edition is worthy to pasa freely from hand to hand as a gift book in many households.
353. oldal - Amen ! Amen ! One who knew him well, and may with good cause love him, has said : " But for Irving, I had never known what the communion of man with man means. His was the freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul mine ever came in contact with : I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in this world, or now hope to find.
354. oldal - It is not merely the work of a truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing...
222. oldal - O'Hara on horseback, who, riding up to General Washington, took off his hat and apologized for the non-appearance of Lord Cornwallis, on account of indisposition. Washington received him with dignified courtesy, but pointed to MajorGeneral Lincoln as the officer who was to receive the submission of the garrison.
354. oldal - It is not often that we light upon a novel of so much merit and interest as