The Life of David HumeHunt and Clarke, 1826 - 147 páginas |
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... Frederic- William . It was by such means , only , that he could , in a reign of twenty - eight years , load the cellars of his palace at Berlin with a hundred and twenty millions of crowns ( fifteen millions sterling , ) all well casked ...
... Frederic- William . It was by such means , only , that he could , in a reign of twenty - eight years , load the cellars of his palace at Berlin with a hundred and twenty millions of crowns ( fifteen millions sterling , ) all well casked ...
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... Frederic - William , who had formerly sold all the magnificent furniture left by his father , never could find a purchaser for that enormous ungilded coach . The Heiduques , who walked on each side to support it , in case it should fall ...
... Frederic - William , who had formerly sold all the magnificent furniture left by his father , never could find a purchaser for that enormous ungilded coach . The Heiduques , who walked on each side to support it , in case it should fall ...
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... Frederic - William . It was not the king's intention to have stopped there ; his design was to have beheaded the prince . He con- sidered that he had three other sons , not one of whom wrote verses , and that they were sufficient to ...
... Frederic - William . It was not the king's intention to have stopped there ; his design was to have beheaded the prince . He con- sidered that he had three other sons , not one of whom wrote verses , and that they were sufficient to ...
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... Frederic III , king of Prussia , was not so great an enemy to Machiavel as the prince royal appeared to have been . Although he had then conceived the project of his invasion of Silesia , he did not the less neglect to invite me to his ...
... Frederic III , king of Prussia , was not so great an enemy to Machiavel as the prince royal appeared to have been . Although he had then conceived the project of his invasion of Silesia , he did not the less neglect to invite me to his ...
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... Frederic passed the night on a truckle - bed , in a vil- lage alehouse near Ratibor , on the confines of Poland , whence he was preparing to enter the northen part of his own dominions , when one of his horsemen arrived from the camp at ...
... Frederic passed the night on a truckle - bed , in a vil- lage alehouse near Ratibor , on the confines of Poland , whence he was preparing to enter the northen part of his own dominions , when one of his horsemen arrived from the camp at ...
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