Switzerland (concluded), Russia and PolandHenry Smith Williams The Times, 1907 |
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... latter town detached a part of its guard without delay . Three hundred dragoons marched upon Fribourg , and were to be followed by fourteen hundred foot . The burghers of Fribourg now thought themselves strong enough to meet force with ...
... latter town detached a part of its guard without delay . Three hundred dragoons marched upon Fribourg , and were to be followed by fourteen hundred foot . The burghers of Fribourg now thought themselves strong enough to meet force with ...
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... latter , when they found them- selves abandoned by all foreign aid , apprehending what might ensue , patched up a peace with the representatives . By a compact closed in March , 1768 , the burghers acquired valuable rights , and even a ...
... latter , when they found them- selves abandoned by all foreign aid , apprehending what might ensue , patched up a peace with the representatives . By a compact closed in March , 1768 , the burghers acquired valuable rights , and even a ...
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... latter canton enabled her to execute more for public ends than Zurich . Bern invested considerable sums in foreign securities , particularly in the English funds ; and , besides , amassed a treasure amounting to some millions of dollars ...
... latter canton enabled her to execute more for public ends than Zurich . Bern invested considerable sums in foreign securities , particularly in the English funds ; and , besides , amassed a treasure amounting to some millions of dollars ...
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... latter town enriched itself by its riband manufacture . Trade in all its branches throve at Geneva ; where a wholesale watch manufacture was conducted , and from whence watchmaking was soon spread through the district of Neuchâtel ...
... latter town enriched itself by its riband manufacture . Trade in all its branches throve at Geneva ; where a wholesale watch manufacture was conducted , and from whence watchmaking was soon spread through the district of Neuchâtel ...
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... latter districts , as might have been expected , that the new ideas gained the greatest currency , and that the first attempts were made for [ 1789-1794 A.D. ] their realisation . Educated and thinking. 16 THE HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND '
... latter districts , as might have been expected , that the new ideas gained the greatest currency , and that the first attempts were made for [ 1789-1794 A.D. ] their realisation . Educated and thinking. 16 THE HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND '
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