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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... Bravery of a private musketeer— Battle of Oppenheim - March to Mentz - Letter from my father - The king appoints me a colonel of horse - Battle of Lech , and defeat of Tilly 57 CHAPTER VI . Farther proceedings of the campaign - Dangerous.
... Bravery of a private musketeer— Battle of Oppenheim - March to Mentz - Letter from my father - The king appoints me a colonel of horse - Battle of Lech , and defeat of Tilly 57 CHAPTER VI . Farther proceedings of the campaign - Dangerous.
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... Bravery of old Horn - Melancholy event of the battle - I leave the army , and visit Holland - Return to England - Proceedings there CHAPTER VIII . 93 War with the Scots - I volunteer to meet the enemy - Bad behaviour of our men ...
... Bravery of old Horn - Melancholy event of the battle - I leave the army , and visit Holland - Return to England - Proceedings there CHAPTER VIII . 93 War with the Scots - I volunteer to meet the enemy - Bad behaviour of our men ...
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... Brave action of a dragoon - The Marquis of Montrose does great service in Scotland - I leave the army on a visit to my father's - Disastrous termination of the war , and fate of the king's party 217 CHAPTER XVII . Various opinions on ...
... Brave action of a dragoon - The Marquis of Montrose does great service in Scotland - I leave the army on a visit to my father's - Disastrous termination of the war , and fate of the king's party 217 CHAPTER XVII . Various opinions on ...
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... brave to the last degree . His name was Fielding , and we called him captain , though it be a very un- usual title in a college ; but fate had some hand in the title , for he had certainly the lines of a soldier drawn in his coun ...
... brave to the last degree . His name was Fielding , and we called him captain , though it be a very un- usual title in a college ; but fate had some hand in the title , for he had certainly the lines of a soldier drawn in his coun ...
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... brave , clean - limbed , stout fellows indeed . Here I saw the cardinal ; there was an air of church gravity in his habit , but all the vigour of a general , and the sprightliness of a vast genius in his face ; he affected a little ...
... brave , clean - limbed , stout fellows indeed . Here I saw the cardinal ; there was an air of church gravity in his habit , but all the vigour of a general , and the sprightliness of a vast genius in his face ; he affected a little ...
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