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... French soldiers : policy of the generals : military vanity : bulletins mode of attack : Rhenish confederation : act ... French police : Neuweid : the Rhine boat tomb of General Marceau : anecdote of French heroism : Cob- lentz its ...
... French soldiers : policy of the generals : military vanity : bulletins mode of attack : Rhenish confederation : act ... French police : Neuweid : the Rhine boat tomb of General Marceau : anecdote of French heroism : Cob- lentz its ...
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... French troops entered Holland as victors , this beautiful river , in a season remarkably rigorous , formed a compact road of ice for the infantry , cavalry , and artillery , of the invaders dreadful as the winter was , the French were ...
... French troops entered Holland as victors , this beautiful river , in a season remarkably rigorous , formed a compact road of ice for the infantry , cavalry , and artillery , of the invaders dreadful as the winter was , the French were ...
Strana 14
... French took possession of Bologna , a soldier , whose coat was nearly in the predica- ment of his military countryman's breeches before men- tioned , came up to Bonaparte , and begged that he would order him a new pair , to which his ...
... French took possession of Bologna , a soldier , whose coat was nearly in the predica- ment of his military countryman's breeches before men- tioned , came up to Bonaparte , and begged that he would order him a new pair , to which his ...
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... French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes - I afterwards observed similar prints in many other houses in the city . Many of the principal merchants of Rotterdam have country - houses in these ...
... French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes - I afterwards observed similar prints in many other houses in the city . Many of the principal merchants of Rotterdam have country - houses in these ...
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... French army , by a clandestine importation of cloth from England , and the looms of Yorkshire accordingly clothed ten thousand French soldiers . The same commercial spirit was observed by the Dutch many years since to us , when , in a ...
... French army , by a clandestine importation of cloth from England , and the looms of Yorkshire accordingly clothed ten thousand French soldiers . The same commercial spirit was observed by the Dutch many years since to us , when , in a ...
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A Tour Through Holland ... to the South of Germany, in ... 1806 John Carr, Sir Náhled není k dispozici. - 2016 |
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Strana 185 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Strana 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Strana 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Strana 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Strana 110 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Strana 75 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Strana 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Strana 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Strana 403 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Strana 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...