The Scots Magazine, Volume 19Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1757 - English literature |
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... confiderable number of years . France and the court of Berlin had been closely allied ever fince the beginning of laft war , had by particular treaties guaran- tied one another's poffeffions , and ftipu- lated fuccours in cafe either of ...
... confiderable number of years . France and the court of Berlin had been closely allied ever fince the beginning of laft war , had by particular treaties guaran- tied one another's poffeffions , and ftipu- lated fuccours in cafe either of ...
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... confiderable uneafinefs to His the French miniftry ; but it was not long before they began to tell us of their ha- hising a treaty on foot with the court of Vienna . Though an alliance of that kind was looked upon to be fo unnatu- ral ...
... confiderable uneafinefs to His the French miniftry ; but it was not long before they began to tell us of their ha- hising a treaty on foot with the court of Vienna . Though an alliance of that kind was looked upon to be fo unnatu- ral ...
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... confiderable provinces of the e pire , had attacked and invaded her arc ducal houfe , had fomented troubles a divifions in Germany , and made fu means fubfervient to its own ambitio views , by ufurping whatever lay conv nient for it ...
... confiderable provinces of the e pire , had attacked and invaded her arc ducal houfe , had fomented troubles a divifions in Germany , and made fu means fubfervient to its own ambitio views , by ufurping whatever lay conv nient for it ...
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... confiderable bo- dy of Ruffians towards Courland , which determined him to caufe a few regiments advance into Pomerania , but that he or dered them to halt fo foon as he heard the Ruffians had marched back ; that the march of those ...
... confiderable bo- dy of Ruffians towards Courland , which determined him to caufe a few regiments advance into Pomerania , but that he or dered them to halt fo foon as he heard the Ruffians had marched back ; that the march of those ...
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... confiderable , be- fides fome hundreds of prisoners taken from them . The Pruffian accounts made the lofs of the Auftrians amount to be- tween 6 and 7000 men killed and wounded , befides 500 prifoners . In a late relation of the affair ...
... confiderable , be- fides fome hundreds of prisoners taken from them . The Pruffian accounts made the lofs of the Auftrians amount to be- tween 6 and 7000 men killed and wounded , befides 500 prifoners . In a late relation of the affair ...
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Page 471 - Sun to the Northwards of the Way of the Earth. At which Time, had the Earth been there, the Comet would have had a Parallax equal to that of the Moon, as I take it.
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Page 46 - Article of War, part of which he falls under, and which admits of no mitigation, even if the crime should be committed by an error in judgment only ; and therefore, for our own consciences ' sakes, as well as in justice to the prisoner, we pray your Lordships, in the most earnest manner, to recommend him to his Majesty's clemency.
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Page 202 - My heart acquits me of these crimes; but who can be presumptuously sure of his own judgment? If my crime is an error in judgment, or differing in opinion from my judges, and if yet the error in...