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1  The victories of the French at Jena and Auerstadt destroy the independent existence of Prussia.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
2  He was surprised to find that this inner freedom, which was independent of external conditions, now had as it were an additional setting of external liberty.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XII
3  It was terrible, but he felt that in proportion to the efforts of that fatal force to crush him, there grew and strengthened in his soul a power of life independent of it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
4  The harder his position became and the more terrible the future, the more independent of that position in which he found himself were the joyful and comforting thoughts, memories, and imaginings that came to him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
5  Had Napoleon's aim been to destroy his army, the most skillful strategist could hardly have devised any series of actions that would so completely have accomplished that purpose, independently of anything the Russian army might do.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VIII
6  Princess Mary, in her position as absolute and independent arbiter of her own fate and guardian and instructor of her nephew, was the first to be called back to life from that realm of sorrow in which she had dwelt for the first fortnight.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I
7  In all these plottings the subject of intrigue was generally the conduct of the war, which all these men believed they were directing; but this affair of the war went on independently of them, as it had to go: that is, never in the way people devised, but flowing always from the essential attitude of the masses.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III