The Quarterly Review, Volume 237William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1922 |
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... military operations in Flanders and Germany reached England only by the mail from Holland ; hence the conspicuous place which the Dutch mail takes in the periodical literature of that age . And as the packet - boat came from the east ...
... military operations in Flanders and Germany reached England only by the mail from Holland ; hence the conspicuous place which the Dutch mail takes in the periodical literature of that age . And as the packet - boat came from the east ...
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... Military reviews were also held there ; we hear of a lady who fell in love with the Duke of Monmouth , when she saw him , in all the splendour of scarlet and gold , at the head of his troop of Guards in the park . Kensington Palace had ...
... Military reviews were also held there ; we hear of a lady who fell in love with the Duke of Monmouth , when she saw him , in all the splendour of scarlet and gold , at the head of his troop of Guards in the park . Kensington Palace had ...
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... military strength still lay with the rulers of northern Abyssinia ; and , after four years ' struggle with his rivals , Goldja Kassa of Tigre successfully emerged ( 1872 ) as Emperor of all Abyssinia under the title of John IV . The ...
... military strength still lay with the rulers of northern Abyssinia ; and , after four years ' struggle with his rivals , Goldja Kassa of Tigre successfully emerged ( 1872 ) as Emperor of all Abyssinia under the title of John IV . The ...
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... military power and prestige . With Galla money he rewarded his generals , paid his soldiers , and bought , first from the French and then from the Italians , huge supplies of arms and ammunition wherewith to equip his ever- growing ...
... military power and prestige . With Galla money he rewarded his generals , paid his soldiers , and bought , first from the French and then from the Italians , huge supplies of arms and ammunition wherewith to equip his ever- growing ...
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... military operations ; but in September , at French instigation , Menelik addressed two letters to the King of Italy , in the first of which he complained that article xvii in the Treaty differed in the Italian and Abyssinian texts , the ...
... military operations ; but in September , at French instigation , Menelik addressed two letters to the King of Italy , in the first of which he complained that article xvii in the Treaty differed in the Italian and Abyssinian texts , the ...
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