Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible ...
... French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible ...
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... French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own native government . So , in the sixteenth ...
... French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own native government . So , in the sixteenth ...
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... French word ; but it is better to use a French word than to misuse an English word . Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as ...
... French word ; but it is better to use a French word than to misuse an English word . Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as ...
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... French con- queror never extended beyond low - water mark . The narrowest strait was to his power what it was of old believed that a running stream was to the sorceries of a witch . While his While his army entered every metropolis from ...
... French con- queror never extended beyond low - water mark . The narrowest strait was to his power what it was of old believed that a running stream was to the sorceries of a witch . While his While his army entered every metropolis from ...
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... French Prince was reigning at the Escurial , England and Holland were justified in attempting , not merely to strip Spain of its remote dependencies , but to conquer Spain itself ; that they were justified in attempting to put , not ...
... French Prince was reigning at the Escurial , England and Holland were justified in attempting , not merely to strip Spain of its remote dependencies , but to conquer Spain itself ; that they were justified in attempting to put , not ...
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