Thaddeus of Warsaw ...A. Walker, 1835 - 439 pages |
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Page 24
... dreadful ambuscade fired upon them , with instant and unremitted violence . Thaddeus threw himself into the midst of his countrymen , and taking the place of their unfortunate conductor , who had been killed in the first sweep of the ...
... dreadful ambuscade fired upon them , with instant and unremitted violence . Thaddeus threw himself into the midst of his countrymen , and taking the place of their unfortunate conductor , who had been killed in the first sweep of the ...
Page 47
... dreadful picture of his people's sufferings ; and hardly able to restrain his tears , he answered the animated exordiums of Sobieski for resis- tance to the last , with an appeal immediately to his heart . " What is it you urge to do ...
... dreadful picture of his people's sufferings ; and hardly able to restrain his tears , he answered the animated exordiums of Sobieski for resis- tance to the last , with an appeal immediately to his heart . " What is it you urge to do ...
Page 50
... dreadful day the senate met at one of the private palaces , and indignant and broken hearted , delivered the following declaration to the people : " The Diet of Poland , hemmed in by foreign troops , and menaced with an invasion from ...
... dreadful day the senate met at one of the private palaces , and indignant and broken hearted , delivered the following declaration to the people : " The Diet of Poland , hemmed in by foreign troops , and menaced with an invasion from ...
Page 53
... dreadful conflict , in which the streets were strewed with the killed , Warsaw was wrested from the imme- diate grasp of Russia . During the fight , the king who was alone in one of the rooms of his palace , sunk almost fainting on the ...
... dreadful conflict , in which the streets were strewed with the killed , Warsaw was wrested from the imme- diate grasp of Russia . During the fight , the king who was alone in one of the rooms of his palace , sunk almost fainting on the ...
Page 54
... dreadful . The Polanese army , worn with fatigue and long services , were without cloth- ing , ammunition , or in any way , except courage , fitted for the field . The treasury was exhausted , and no means of raising a supply seemed ...
... dreadful . The Polanese army , worn with fatigue and long services , were without cloth- ing , ammunition , or in any way , except courage , fitted for the field . The treasury was exhausted , and no means of raising a supply seemed ...
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