 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 536 páginas
...King difpatched the following billet to the Queen at Berlin : " Madam, we have driven the " Ruffians from their entrenchments. In two " hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This intimation was premature, and fubjected the writer to the ridicule of his enemies. The Ruffians... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1804 - 544 páginas
...King difpatched the following billet to the Queen at Berlin : " Madam, we have driven the " Ruffians from their entrenchments. In two " hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This intimation was .premature, .and fubjected the writer to the ridicule of his enemies. The Ruffians... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1827 - 378 páginas
...Prussians, that the king despatched the following billet to the queen at Berlin : " Madam, we have driven the Russians from their entrenchments. In two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This in- 1759. timation was premature, and subjected the writer to the ridicule of his enemies. The... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - 388 páginas
...Prussians, that the king despat9hed the following billet to the queen at Berlin : " Madam, we have driven the Russians from their entrenchments. In two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This in- 1789. timation was premature, and subjected the writer to the ridicule of his enemies. The... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1832 - 586 páginas
...favour. The king, in these circumstances of triumph, wrote a billet to the queen, to this effect : " Madam, we have beat the Russians from their entrenchments....two hours, expect to hear of a glorious victory." This news arrived at Berlin just as the post was going out, and the friends of Frederic throughout... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1846 - 420 páginas
...impatient to notify it, despatched a courier to the Queen with these words : " Madam, we have beaten the Russians from their entrenchments; in two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." Unless he concluded that the expeditious divulging of his success could check the progress of his other... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 524 páginas
...recommended by prudence. The king in those circumstances wrote a note to the queen, . to this- effect: " Madam, we have beat the Russians from their entrenchments....In two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This news arrived at Berlin just as the post was going out, and the friends of the king of Prussia... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 526 páginas
...those circumstances wrote a note to the queen, to this effect : " Madam, we have beat the Eussians from their entrenchments. In two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This news arrived at Berlin just as the post was going out, and the friends of the king of Prussia... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 534 páginas
...in those circumstances wrote a note to the queen, to this effect: "Madam, we have beat the Eussians from their entrenchments. In two hours expect to hear of a glorious victory." This news arrived at Berlin just as the post was going out, and the friends of the king of Prussia... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 546 páginas
...Seventy-two pieces of cannon fell into the hands of the victors, and at every point the Russians were retreating. Frederic, in his exultation, scribbled...six hours in one of the severest actions which was over known, were utterly beat out and fainting with exhaustion. Just then the whole body of the Russian... | |
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Russians were retreating. Frederic, in his exultation, scribbled a note to the empress, upon the field of battle, with the pommel of his saddle for a tablet, and dispatched it to her by a courier. It was as follows : " Madam : we have beat the Russians... 
