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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 13th Nov. 1757. Such a pitch have French Armies sunk to. When was there seen such a Bellona as Dauphiness before ? Nay, in fact, she is the same devil-serving Army that Mare'chal de Saxe commanded with such triumph, ? Marechal de Saxe in better luck for opponents; Army then in a younger stage of its development. Foaming then as sweet must, as new wine, in the hands of a skilful vintner, poisonous but brisk; not run, as now, to the vinegar state, intolerable to all mortals. She can now announce from her camp-theatres the reverse of the Koucoux program, To-morrow, Messieurs, you are going to fight; our Manager foresees you will be beaten; and we cannot say what or where the next Piece will be Impious, licentious, high-flaring efflorescence of all the Vices is not to be redeemed by the one Quasi-Virtue of readiness to be shot; ? sweet of that kind, and sour of this, are the same substance, if you only wait. How kind was the Devil to his Saxe; and flew away with him in rose-pink, while it was still time CHAPTER IX. FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA. The fame of Friedrich is high enough again in the Gazetteer world; all people, and the French themselves, laughing at their grandiloquent Dauphiness-Bellona, and writing epigrams on Soubise. But Friedrich's difficulties are still enormous. One enemy coming with open mouth, you plunge in upon, and ruin, on this hand; and it only gives you room to attempt upon another bigger one on that. Soubise he has finished handsomely, for this season; but now he must try conclusions with Prince Karl. Quick, towards Silesia, after this glorious Victory which the Gazetteers are celebrating. The news out of Silesia are ominously doubtful, bad at the best. Duke Bevern, once Winterfeld was gone, had, as we observed, felt himself free to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217313148 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217313140 |
| Weight | 1.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 394 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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