Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
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... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
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... whole Hotel of Ram- bouillet . To prove the whole system of this school erroneous , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel , to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated ...
... whole Hotel of Ram- bouillet . To prove the whole system of this school erroneous , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel , to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated ...
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... whole action , leaving their fate to be decided by a foolish father , a cunning mother , and two knavish servants . Machiavelli has executed his task with judgment and taste . He has accommodated the plot to a different state of society ...
... whole action , leaving their fate to be decided by a foolish father , a cunning mother , and two knavish servants . Machiavelli has executed his task with judgment and taste . He has accommodated the plot to a different state of society ...
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... tremendous days into which human folly and wickedness compress the whole devastation of a famine or a plague . In that memorable conflict , the infantry of Arragon , the old companions of Gonsalvo , deserted 28 Macaulay's Essays.
... tremendous days into which human folly and wickedness compress the whole devastation of a famine or a plague . In that memorable conflict , the infantry of Arragon , the old companions of Gonsalvo , deserted 28 Macaulay's Essays.
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