Essays and remains, ed. with a mem. by R. Vaughan, Том 2 |
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... Austrian or a Russian has seen three or four times over ; but it is now three centuries since an English pig has fallen in a fair battle upon English ground , or a farmhouse been rifled , or a clergyman's wife been subjected to any ...
... Austrian or a Russian has seen three or four times over ; but it is now three centuries since an English pig has fallen in a fair battle upon English ground , or a farmhouse been rifled , or a clergyman's wife been subjected to any ...
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... Austria , allows its subjects to sing and to traffic , to play and to paint , but forbids the faintest approach to self - government . He believes that to serve the artistic culture of his age is a worthy and sufficient work for any man ...
... Austria , allows its subjects to sing and to traffic , to play and to paint , but forbids the faintest approach to self - government . He believes that to serve the artistic culture of his age is a worthy and sufficient work for any man ...
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... Memoirs of the Court , Aristocracy , and Diplomacy of Austria . By DR . E. VEHSE . Translated from the German , by FRANZ DEMMLER . 2 vols . Long- man . 1856 . under every shape a chameleon for change of colour ? THE GERMAN COURTS.
... Memoirs of the Court , Aristocracy , and Diplomacy of Austria . By DR . E. VEHSE . Translated from the German , by FRANZ DEMMLER . 2 vols . Long- man . 1856 . under every shape a chameleon for change of colour ? THE GERMAN COURTS.
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... Austria , every other nation traces the achievements of some famous countryman . Her counsels have been guided and ... Austrian captain , or the successes of an Austrian diplomatist . Her great deliverers , Sobiesky and Eugene , are the ...
... Austria , every other nation traces the achievements of some famous countryman . Her counsels have been guided and ... Austrian captain , or the successes of an Austrian diplomatist . Her great deliverers , Sobiesky and Eugene , are the ...
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... Austria . Had the proposed consti- tution been established in Germany , he would have found it more difficult to enrich the head at the expense of the body . His opposition to the scheme of the primate was therefore decided and ...
... Austria . Had the proposed consti- tution been established in Germany , he would have found it more difficult to enrich the head at the expense of the body . His opposition to the scheme of the primate was therefore decided and ...
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