Public Characters of All Nations: Consisting of Biographical Accounts of Nearly Three Thousand Eminent Contemporaries, Alphabetically Arranged, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips & Company, 1823 - 648 pages |
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... army , and in a short time became a captain . He afterwards quit- ted the army , and became professor of eloquence in the University of Pavia , in which office he gained high reputation . Melzi , the vice president of the republic ...
... army , and in a short time became a captain . He afterwards quit- ted the army , and became professor of eloquence in the University of Pavia , in which office he gained high reputation . Melzi , the vice president of the republic ...
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... army as a second lieutenant of dragoons . He soon distinguished himself , particularly at the battle of Fleurus ; and , at the age of twenty three , he was raised to be a colonel of hussars . The principles of Fournier were republican ...
... army as a second lieutenant of dragoons . He soon distinguished himself , particularly at the battle of Fleurus ; and , at the age of twenty three , he was raised to be a colonel of hussars . The principles of Fournier were republican ...
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... army to the courts of law ; and , in 1791 , obtained a commission in the artillery service . After the breaking out of the war he distinguished himself in the army of the North , under the eyes of Dumourier , Dampierre , Custine ...
... army to the courts of law ; and , in 1791 , obtained a commission in the artillery service . After the breaking out of the war he distinguished himself in the army of the North , under the eyes of Dumourier , Dampierre , Custine ...
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... army , the coalition was dissolved , and Austria remained alone to struggle against France ; a contest which , for a while , seemed to promise complete success to the imperial arms . [ At last , in the end of 1799 , a new and most ex ...
... army , the coalition was dissolved , and Austria remained alone to struggle against France ; a contest which , for a while , seemed to promise complete success to the imperial arms . [ At last , in the end of 1799 , a new and most ex ...
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... army under Mack at Ulm , on the Danube , on the 17th October 1805 , and by the subsequent defeat of the archduke Ferdinand in Bohemia . The loss of the battle of Austerlitz , in which both the imperial armies were united , completely ...
... army under Mack at Ulm , on the Danube , on the 17th October 1805 , and by the subsequent defeat of the archduke Ferdinand in Bohemia . The loss of the battle of Austerlitz , in which both the imperial armies were united , completely ...
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Page 362 - Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one ; and if I came to a triplet, a thing of which I had no conception, I commonly read to the foot of the page without perceiving that I had lost the rhyme altogether. I thought the author had been straitened for rhymes, and had just made a part of it do as well as he could without them.
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Page 311 - ... memorable occasion, he was appointed Brigadier-General in the regular army, and received the special thanks of the President for his gallantry. The wound he had received compelling him to leave his command for a short time, G-eneral Hooker disappeared from participation in military affairs till assigned the command of one of the divisions of the army of the Potomac by General Burnside, who had recently been appointed its commander-in-chief. General Hooker was placed in command of the centre,...
Page 364 - I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When once it is written, it remains in that state; it being, as you very well know, with the utmost difficulty that I can be brought to alter one syllable, which I think is partly owing to the above practice.
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Page 362 - The little reading that I had learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me ; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one ; and, if I came to a triplet, a thing of...
Page 788 - In 1811, the regency gave him the rank of colonel; in 1812, that of brigadier-general, and soon after, that of general. His force, in 1813, consisted of 11,000 infantry and 2500 cavalry, and with this he cooperated in the blockade of Pampeluna, and recovered Saragossa, Monzon, Tafalla, Jaca, and various other places.
Page 364 - My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C.
Page 379 - He accompanied the British troops into Holland in August, 1799, as deputy adjutant-general, but was so severely wounded at the landing at the Helder, on the 27th of that month, that he was compelled to come home. On...
Page 750 - Eton, and at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA in 1774, and, in 1775 and 1776, gained some academical prizes.