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  • Berlin Decrees and the Orders in Council in the day of Napoleon.

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • He had not recalled his Decrees, but pretended to do so in order to get the

    A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

  • Rabbenu Gershom not only gave Talmudic learning a fresh impetus and removed its centre [center sic] to the banks of the Rhine, but he also exerted the greatest and most salutary influence upon the social life of his co-religionists, through his "Decrees," religious and moral, which, partly renewing older institutions, were accepted by all the Jews of Christian countries.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

  • Indeed, it is said that the most stringent enforcement of the "Decrees" and "Orders" did not prevent the Napoleonic armies from wearing uniforms of English cloth and carrying English steel in their scabbards.

    Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902

  • He shook hands with her and granted her request, and in the course of conversation pointed to a great heap of 'Decrees' on the table, being hatched 'for the good of France.'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • He shook hands with her and granted her request, and in the course of conversation pointed to a great heap of 'Decrees' on the table, being hatched 'for the good of France.'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • The reasons hereof are to be found in the Chapter of the Decrees which is called Margarita (de consec.,

    The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

  • Then President Ferdinand Marcos issued at least two Presidential Decrees in the 1970s annexing and confirming the Kalayaan islands as a municipality of Palawan, a major province of the Philippines.

    Daniel Wagner: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch Daniel Wagner 2011

  • Then President Ferdinand Marcos issued at least two Presidential Decrees in the 1970s annexing and confirming the Kalayaan islands as a municipality of Palawan, a major province of the Philippines.

    Daniel Wagner: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch Daniel Wagner 2011

  • Then President Ferdinand Marcos issued at least two Presidential Decrees in the 1970s annexing and confirming the Kalayaan islands as a municipality of Palawan, a major province of the Philippines.

    Daniel Wagner: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch Daniel Wagner 2011

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