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Page 187 - I know not how : the fog dispersed and the Turks perceived a dreadful breach. But for my second line, which I ordered to march there immediately, to stop this breach, I should have been lost. I then wished to march in order: impossible ! I was better served than I expected. La Colonie, at the head of his Bavarians, rushed forwards and took a battery of eighteen pieces of cannon. I was obliged to do better than I wished. I sustained the Bavarians; and the Turks, after having fled to the heights, lost...
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Page 247 - Massillon fills me with hope. We were born in the same year, and I knew him on his entrance into the world — a perfectly amiable man. Bossuet astonishes — Fenelon affects me. I saw them also in my youth ; and Marlborough and I paid the latter all possible honours when we took Cambrai.
Page 207 - ... proprietors of the adjacent lands, without ruining the government by constructing them ? double our population by the Huguenots of France, and the emigrants from the empire who are ill used by their petty tyrants of sovereigns...
Page 52 - ... and demanded my sword. I delivered it into his trembling hand with a look of the profoundest disdain, which served to increase his dismay. It was reported that I said : " Take it, yet reeking with the blood of enemies ; I have no wish to resume it, except for the benefit of his majesty's service." One half of this sentence would have been a gasconade, and the other a mean resignation. My rage was silent. I was put under arrest in my hotel. Here I was soon informed that Gaspard Kinsky, and some...
Page 185 - Dombes, had his leg shot off by his side, and one of his pages was killed. All our princes, whom I have enumerated above, distinguished themselves, and loved me like their father. I had caused the country in the rear of the Grand Vizier's army to be ravaged : but these people, as well as their horses and especially their camels, will live almost upon nothing. Scarcely an hour passed in which I did not lose a score of men by the dysentry, or by the cannon from the lines, which the infidels advanced...
Page 113 - we are in a condition to fight." It was six in the evening of the llth of July: we had yet three hours of daylight I was on the right, at the head of the Prussians. Some battalions turned their backs, on being attacked with unequalled fury. They rallied, retrieved their fault, and we recovered the ground they had lost. The battle then became general along the whole line.
Page 248 - I still retain my memory, as may be seen ; and I think I have forgotten nothing except my enemies in this country, whom I forgive with all my heart. A foreigner, and successful ! — This was too much for them. My health is very good, considering my age of seventy-two years, the fatigues of I know not how many campaigns, and the effects of I can't tell how many wounds. The chevalier Carelli, my physician and friend, furnishes me with a sure remedy for curing as he says the radical humidity, which...