Montcalm and Wolfe, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - United States |
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... hands . The most momentous and far - reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was : Shall France remain here , or shall she not ? If , by diplomacy or war , she had preserved but the half , or less than the half , of ...
... hands . The most momentous and far - reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was : Shall France remain here , or shall she not ? If , by diplomacy or war , she had preserved but the half , or less than the half , of ...
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... hand , and cheating the King on the other . A few great cities shone with all that is most brilliant in society , intellect , and concentred wealth ; while the country that paid the costs lay in ignorance and penury , crushed and ...
... hand , and cheating the King on the other . A few great cities shone with all that is most brilliant in society , intellect , and concentred wealth ; while the country that paid the costs lay in ignorance and penury , crushed and ...
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... hand to hand in- cessantly , and this at a time of crisis when the kingdom needed the steadiest and surest guidance . Few of the officers of state , except , perhaps , D'Ar- genson , could venture to disregard her . She turned out Orry ...
... hand to hand in- cessantly , and this at a time of crisis when the kingdom needed the steadiest and surest guidance . Few of the officers of state , except , perhaps , D'Ar- genson , could venture to disregard her . She turned out Orry ...
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... hand who both would and could ; and the late claimant , disinherited and forlorn , would soon be left to count the cost of her bigotry . The thirteen British colonies were alike , inso- much as they all had representative governments ...
... hand who both would and could ; and the late claimant , disinherited and forlorn , would soon be left to count the cost of her bigotry . The thirteen British colonies were alike , inso- much as they all had representative governments ...
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... hand , there were few genuine New Englanders who , however personally modest , could divest themselves of the notion that they belonged to a people in an especial manner the object of divine approval ; and this self - righteousness ...
... hand , there were few genuine New Englanders who , however personally modest , could divest themselves of the notion that they belonged to a people in an especial manner the object of divine approval ; and this self - righteousness ...
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