Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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... arms . His description of the Scots ' troops in the beginning of the war , and the behaviour of the party under the Earl of Holland , who went over against them , are admirable ; and his censure of their conduct , who pushed the king ...
... arms . His description of the Scots ' troops in the beginning of the war , and the behaviour of the party under the Earl of Holland , who went over against them , are admirable ; and his censure of their conduct , who pushed the king ...
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... arms , had little share in those things , and might not care to trouble himself with looking at them . But , besides all this , it might happen , that he might go abroad again , at that time , as most of the gentlemen of quality , and ...
... arms , had little share in those things , and might not care to trouble himself with looking at them . But , besides all this , it might happen , that he might go abroad again , at that time , as most of the gentlemen of quality , and ...
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... arms for their re- ligion ; and therefore the wisest of them plainly foresaw their own entire reduction , as it since came to pass ; and I remem- ber very well , that a protestant gentleman told me once , as we were passing from Orleans ...
... arms for their re- ligion ; and therefore the wisest of them plainly foresaw their own entire reduction , as it since came to pass ; and I remem- ber very well , that a protestant gentleman told me once , as we were passing from Orleans ...
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... arms , that could not make up above seventy or eighty men , officers and all , and those half starved with hunger , almost naked , and in a lamentable condition . From thence I went into the town , and there things were still in a worse ...
... arms , that could not make up above seventy or eighty men , officers and all , and those half starved with hunger , almost naked , and in a lamentable condition . From thence I went into the town , and there things were still in a worse ...
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... arms in that war . In pursuance therefore of his resolution to quarrel with the emperor , but more particularly at the instances of the princes above named , his Swedish majesty had landed the year before at Straelsund with about twelve ...
... arms in that war . In pursuance therefore of his resolution to quarrel with the emperor , but more particularly at the instances of the princes above named , his Swedish majesty had landed the year before at Straelsund with about twelve ...
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