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... Joseph de Maistre , Madame de Staël , and Benjamin Constant . It became neces- sary for authors to adopt one of two courses ; either to go elsewhere or to resign themselves to the elegant commonplaces of the orthodox literature . Did ...
... Joseph de Maistre , Madame de Staël , and Benjamin Constant . It became neces- sary for authors to adopt one of two courses ; either to go elsewhere or to resign themselves to the elegant commonplaces of the orthodox literature . Did ...
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... Joseph , knew better than any one . To assist the needs of Sweden he offered to take a regiment of Swedes and a few hundred sailors into his pay ; a derisive offer which Charles XIII did not accept ; but in order to evade the blows with ...
... Joseph , knew better than any one . To assist the needs of Sweden he offered to take a regiment of Swedes and a few hundred sailors into his pay ; a derisive offer which Charles XIII did not accept ; but in order to evade the blows with ...
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... Joseph longed for it with his whole heart , seeing in it the consolidation of his tottering throne ; the army looked forward to it as the termination of their humilia- tions and of long months of suffering ; France , as the prelimi ...
... Joseph longed for it with his whole heart , seeing in it the consolidation of his tottering throne ; the army looked forward to it as the termination of their humilia- tions and of long months of suffering ; France , as the prelimi ...
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... Joseph . But the King had not pardoned Soult for his dilatoriness in operating his movement on Plasencia , or for his inertness during the retreat of the English , or for his disinclination to follow any but his own inspirations . Joseph ...
... Joseph . But the King had not pardoned Soult for his dilatoriness in operating his movement on Plasencia , or for his inertness during the retreat of the English , or for his disinclination to follow any but his own inspirations . Joseph ...
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... Joseph was surrounded . Such resources were eminently insufficient . Napoleon's system was to pay his troops , but not to trouble himself about feeding them . Hence it ensued that our armies were compelled to live by ransacking and ...
... Joseph was surrounded . Such resources were eminently insufficient . Napoleon's system was to pay his troops , but not to trouble himself about feeding them . Hence it ensued that our armies were compelled to live by ransacking and ...
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