The Quarterly Review, Volume 250William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 - English literature |
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Page 283
... Cavalier . Traduction et Notes . 1918. English edition . Dublin , 1726 . 2. Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des Camisars . 3 vols . Antoine Court , 1760 . 3. Précis Historique de la Guerre des Camisards , 1702- 1710 ...
... Cavalier . Traduction et Notes . 1918. English edition . Dublin , 1726 . 2. Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des Camisars . 3 vols . Antoine Court , 1760 . 3. Précis Historique de la Guerre des Camisards , 1702- 1710 ...
Page 286
... Cavalier describes as ' le plus cruel et le plus barbare de tous les tyrans , ' was determined to suppress the Protest- ants at all costs and by any means and seems to have regarded them as little better than vermin . This was the state ...
... Cavalier describes as ' le plus cruel et le plus barbare de tous les tyrans , ' was determined to suppress the Protest- ants at all costs and by any means and seems to have regarded them as little better than vermin . This was the state ...
Page 287
... Cavalier was a zealous Protestant , his modest statement of the facts as he knew them contrasts very favourably with the calumnies and insinuations which disfigure the accounts of the war written by Roman Catholics . According to Cavalier ...
... Cavalier was a zealous Protestant , his modest statement of the facts as he knew them contrasts very favourably with the calumnies and insinuations which disfigure the accounts of the war written by Roman Catholics . According to Cavalier ...
Page 288
... Cavalier grimly puts it , those who were fools enough to believe it and return to their houses were hanged before their own front doors . When they did not return their houses were burnt to the ground . The war in the Cévennes had begun ...
... Cavalier grimly puts it , those who were fools enough to believe it and return to their houses were hanged before their own front doors . When they did not return their houses were burnt to the ground . The war in the Cévennes had begun ...
Page 289
... Cavalier , was an experienced soldier ; according to M. Tallon , editor of the ' Fragment de la Guerre des Camisards , ' an ironmonger who went bankrupt , then became a pig - dealer , and finally leader of the rebels , but M. Tallon ...
... Cavalier , was an experienced soldier ; according to M. Tallon , editor of the ' Fragment de la Guerre des Camisards , ' an ironmonger who went bankrupt , then became a pig - dealer , and finally leader of the rebels , but M. Tallon ...
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