Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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Page 13
... known . The richest and most enlightened part of the world was left undefended to the assaults of every barbarous invader , to the brutality of Switzerland , the inso- lence of France , and the fierce rapacity of Arragon . The moral ...
... known . The richest and most enlightened part of the world was left undefended to the assaults of every barbarous invader , to the brutality of Switzerland , the inso- lence of France , and the fierce rapacity of Arragon . The moral ...
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... known and esteemed wherever German literature is studied , and has been found interesting even in a most inaccurate and dishonest French version . It is , indeed , the work of a mind fitted both for minute researches and for large ...
... known and esteemed wherever German literature is studied , and has been found interesting even in a most inaccurate and dishonest French version . It is , indeed , the work of a mind fitted both for minute researches and for large ...
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... known to Ionia , these vexing questions were debated with no common skill and eloquence , under the tents of the Idumean Emirs ; nor has human reason , in the course of three thousand years , discovered any satisfactory solution of the ...
... known to Ionia , these vexing questions were debated with no common skill and eloquence , under the tents of the Idumean Emirs ; nor has human reason , in the course of three thousand years , discovered any satisfactory solution of the ...
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... known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
... known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
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... known that he dreaded the rise of an universal monarchy even more than he desired the prosperity of the Universal Church . At length a great event announced to the world that the war of sects had ceased , and that the war of states had ...
... known that he dreaded the rise of an universal monarchy even more than he desired the prosperity of the Universal Church . At length a great event announced to the world that the war of sects had ceased , and that the war of states had ...
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