Quarterly Review, Volume 82John Murray, 1848 - English literature |
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... never - failing flow of conversation . There was no limitation as to rank in those whom he invited , nor any arrogance of Royalty in his behaviour towards them ; but they suffered unmercifully from his wit , or as his butts , for he ...
... never - failing flow of conversation . There was no limitation as to rank in those whom he invited , nor any arrogance of Royalty in his behaviour towards them ; but they suffered unmercifully from his wit , or as his butts , for he ...
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... never in any degree mastered the spelling of either language . To the last we find the strangest errors even in the most common words . Thus he writes winter HIVERD , old VIEU , flesh CHER , actress ACCTRISSE , and the word which in ...
... never in any degree mastered the spelling of either language . To the last we find the strangest errors even in the most common words . Thus he writes winter HIVERD , old VIEU , flesh CHER , actress ACCTRISSE , and the word which in ...
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... never even saw the new palaces at Potsdam . At Berlin , however , during winter , she had apartments in the Royal Palace : the King used to dine with her in state three or four times every year , and on all occa- sions showed her , as ...
... never even saw the new palaces at Potsdam . At Berlin , however , during winter , she had apartments in the Royal Palace : the King used to dine with her in state three or four times every year , and on all occa- sions showed her , as ...
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... never enabled the Prussian Envoys at foreign Courts to assume a state at all commensurate to the importance which their country had acquired , but condemned them to languish in obscurity on most inadequate stipends , as during his ...
... never enabled the Prussian Envoys at foreign Courts to assume a state at all commensurate to the importance which their country had acquired , but condemned them to languish in obscurity on most inadequate stipends , as during his ...
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... never yet been so rigidly enforced in any other ; as an instance , it is mentioned that when in 1778 the Baireuth regiment of dragoons was reviewed by the King , it contained seventy - four officers , and of these not one - from the ...
... never yet been so rigidly enforced in any other ; as an instance , it is mentioned that when in 1778 the Baireuth regiment of dragoons was reviewed by the King , it contained seventy - four officers , and of these not one - from the ...
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