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... Russians , and to land in England with 30,000 men , in order to restore the house of Stuart to the throne . The death of the king of Sweden defeated this project , and Alberoni next attempted , by his emissaries , to raise an ...
... Russians , and to land in England with 30,000 men , in order to restore the house of Stuart to the throne . The death of the king of Sweden defeated this project , and Alberoni next attempted , by his emissaries , to raise an ...
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... Russia was next pro- posed ; but she was rejected . At length , however , a wife was found for Louis , in the person of the daughter of Stanislaus , the exiled king of Poland . Conceiving that she would be grateful , the duke of Bourbon ...
... Russia was next pro- posed ; but she was rejected . At length , however , a wife was found for Louis , in the person of the daughter of Stanislaus , the exiled king of Poland . Conceiving that she would be grateful , the duke of Bourbon ...
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... at that period a conqueror and the arbiter of kingdoms . The fortunes of Charles fell at Pultowa , and Russia dethroned Stanislaus , and caused Augustus of Saxony to be elected in his stead . Augustus died M 2 LOUIS XV , 125.
... at that period a conqueror and the arbiter of kingdoms . The fortunes of Charles fell at Pultowa , and Russia dethroned Stanislaus , and caused Augustus of Saxony to be elected in his stead . Augustus died M 2 LOUIS XV , 125.
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... Russia declared against Stanislaus , in favour of the son of the late king Augustus , who was allied by marriage to the emperor . These two nations sent armies to support the rights of their candidate , which overran and devastated ...
... Russia declared against Stanislaus , in favour of the son of the late king Augustus , who was allied by marriage to the emperor . These two nations sent armies to support the rights of their candidate , which overran and devastated ...
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... Russians to march to their aid , were obstinate . In the spring of 1748 , however , marechal Saxe invaded Maestricht , and this rendered them more inclined to listen to the overtures of France . Ne- gotiations commenced , hostilities ...
... Russians to march to their aid , were obstinate . In the spring of 1748 , however , marechal Saxe invaded Maestricht , and this rendered them more inclined to listen to the overtures of France . Ne- gotiations commenced , hostilities ...
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Seite 68 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Seite 40 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 430 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Seite 40 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Seite 40 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Seite 159 - There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. Nought around Strikes his sad eye but deserts lost in snow...
Seite 5 - Topt with all titles, spreading all our reaches, As if each private arm would sphere the earth, We must to Virtue for her guide resort, Or we shall shipwreck in our safest port.
Seite 100 - In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds, And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin, And putrefy the breath of blooming health. He calls for Famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips, And taints the golden ear. He springs his mines, And desolates a nation at a blast.
Seite 432 - HERE is the spring where waters flow, To quench our heat of sin : Here is the tree where truth doth grow, To lead our lives therein : Here is the Judge that stints the strife, When men's devices fail : Here is the Bread that feeds the life, That death cannot assail.
Seite 463 - Egyptian Thebes ; Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves ; Palmyra, central in the desert, fell ; And the arts died by which they had been raised.