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... whole army , both cavalry and infantry , having deferted their colours fo fhamefully , that they equally evaded the dan- ger of being killed or taken . The whole Turkish camp , with a fine train of brass artillery , which had been caft ...
... whole army , both cavalry and infantry , having deferted their colours fo fhamefully , that they equally evaded the dan- ger of being killed or taken . The whole Turkish camp , with a fine train of brass artillery , which had been caft ...
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... whole countries , for any length of time , with provifion , other methods have been fince devifed to prevent the progrefs of the famine . " Thus has the empress Catherine conducted and concluded a danger- ous and most extenfive war ...
... whole countries , for any length of time , with provifion , other methods have been fince devifed to prevent the progrefs of the famine . " Thus has the empress Catherine conducted and concluded a danger- ous and most extenfive war ...
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... whole of all thofe rivers which had been affign- ed as boundaries , together with their oppofite banks , but they alfo infifted , that ftrait lines fhould be drawn from the heads of those rivers to their determination as bounda- ries ...
... whole of all thofe rivers which had been affign- ed as boundaries , together with their oppofite banks , but they alfo infifted , that ftrait lines fhould be drawn from the heads of those rivers to their determination as bounda- ries ...
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... whole an in- explicable chaos . The decifive intervention of thofe powers , whofe breath prefcribed the fate of Poland , and who were equally enabled to admit of its baving any form of government , or none , was , however , fufficient ...
... whole an in- explicable chaos . The decifive intervention of thofe powers , whofe breath prefcribed the fate of Poland , and who were equally enabled to admit of its baving any form of government , or none , was , however , fufficient ...
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... whole Chriftian world against her ; and the funk at different parts of it , to the loweft ftate of ruin and diftrefs . The fmall pox , which had al- ready been fo fatal to his family , feized Lewis XV . in the fixty - fourth year of his ...
... whole Chriftian world against her ; and the funk at different parts of it , to the loweft ftate of ruin and diftrefs . The fmall pox , which had al- ready been fo fatal to his family , feized Lewis XV . in the fixty - fourth year of his ...
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Page 198 - Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head, Let me ponder, and tell what I think of the dead. Here lies the good Dean...
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