Montcalm and Wolfe, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - United States |
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... head of the government , had gained power and kept it by his rank and connections , his wealth , his county influence , his control of bor- oughs , and the extraordinary assiduity and devo- tion with which he practised the arts of ...
... head of the government , had gained power and kept it by his rank and connections , his wealth , his county influence , his control of bor- oughs , and the extraordinary assiduity and devo- tion with which he practised the arts of ...
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... head ; though a king who neither could nor would direct it . All strife was over between the Crown and the nobles ; feudalism was robbed of its vitality , and left the mere image of its former self , with nothing alive but its abuses ...
... head ; though a king who neither could nor would direct it . All strife was over between the Crown and the nobles ; feudalism was robbed of its vitality , and left the mere image of its former self , with nothing alive but its abuses ...
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... head in the family circle , thrashed him with his rattan in public , bullied him for submitting to such treatment , and imprisoned him for trying to run away from it . He came at last out of purgatory ; and Europe felt him to her ...
... head in the family circle , thrashed him with his rattan in public , bullied him for submitting to such treatment , and imprisoned him for trying to run away from it . He came at last out of purgatory ; and Europe felt him to her ...
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... head of the Elector , think- ing to ruin her old enemy , the House of Austria , and rule Germany through an emperor too weak to dispense with her support . England , jealous of her designs , trembling for the balance of power , and ...
... head of the Elector , think- ing to ruin her old enemy , the House of Austria , and rule Germany through an emperor too weak to dispense with her support . England , jealous of her designs , trembling for the balance of power , and ...
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... heads of New France ; while between lay the realms of solitude where the Mis- sissippi rolled its sullen tide , and the Ohio wound its belt of silver through the verdant woodlands . To whom belonged this world of prairies and forests ...
... heads of New France ; while between lay the realms of solitude where the Mis- sissippi rolled its sullen tide , and the Ohio wound its belt of silver through the verdant woodlands . To whom belonged this world of prairies and forests ...
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