Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 65
... Italy or Flanders , might begin to discover much matter for useful meditation in the texts touching Ehud's knife and Jael's hammer . His ma- jesty was not aware , it should seem , that people do some . times reconsider their opinions ...
... Italy or Flanders , might begin to discover much matter for useful meditation in the texts touching Ehud's knife and Jael's hammer . His ma- jesty was not aware , it should seem , that people do some . times reconsider their opinions ...
Page 142
... Italy by the great chiefs of foreign merce- naries , the Ricimers and the Odoacers , who put up and pulled down at their pleasure a succession of insignificant princes , dignified with the names of Cæsar and Augustus . But as in one ...
... Italy by the great chiefs of foreign merce- naries , the Ricimers and the Odoacers , who put up and pulled down at their pleasure a succession of insignificant princes , dignified with the names of Cæsar and Augustus . But as in one ...
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... Italy and Germany , which had occupied Paris with its armies , and covered the British seas with its sails , was at the mercy of every spoiler ; and Europe saw with dismay the rapid growth of a new and more formidable power . Men looked ...
... Italy and Germany , which had occupied Paris with its armies , and covered the British seas with its sails , was at the mercy of every spoiler ; and Europe saw with dismay the rapid growth of a new and more formidable power . Men looked ...
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... Italy ; thinking , doubtless , that he should spend his time much more pleasantly among pictures and ruins than in such a whirlpool of political and religious frenzy as was then raging in London . But the king was in extreme necessity ...
... Italy ; thinking , doubtless , that he should spend his time much more pleasantly among pictures and ruins than in such a whirlpool of political and religious frenzy as was then raging in London . But the king was in extreme necessity ...
Page 237
... Italians , he has omitted Dante , Petrarch , Ari- osto , and Tasso ; in his list of Spaniards , Lope and Cal- deron ; in his list of French , Pascal , Bossuet , Molière , Corneille , Racine , and Boileau ; and in his list of English ...
... Italians , he has omitted Dante , Petrarch , Ari- osto , and Tasso ; in his list of Spaniards , Lope and Cal- deron ; in his list of French , Pascal , Bossuet , Molière , Corneille , Racine , and Boileau ; and in his list of English ...
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