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... century . Its circulation , large in England , was immense in the United States ; and in every portion of the world . where English literature is esteemed , it was widely read , either in the original text or in carefully prepared ...
... century . Its circulation , large in England , was immense in the United States ; and in every portion of the world . where English literature is esteemed , it was widely read , either in the original text or in carefully prepared ...
Page xxxii
... century was said to have Byronized human life . Even in some of his most seemingly triumphant state- ments it will be found that a different disposition of the facts will result in establishing an opposite opinion . Take the article on ...
... century was said to have Byronized human life . Even in some of his most seemingly triumphant state- ments it will be found that a different disposition of the facts will result in establishing an opposite opinion . Take the article on ...
Page xxxiv
... century . They partake of the imperfections of his thinking and the limitations of his character , but they are still perfect of their kind . The articles on Machiavelli , Bunyan , Clive , Hastings , Frederic the Great , Barère ...
... century . They partake of the imperfections of his thinking and the limitations of his character , but they are still perfect of their kind . The articles on Machiavelli , Bunyan , Clive , Hastings , Frederic the Great , Barère ...
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... century , we may trace the influence of that mighty genius which has immortal- ised the ill - starred love of Francesca , and the paternal agonies of Ugolino . Alfieri bequeathed the sover- eignty of Italian literature to the author of ...
... century , we may trace the influence of that mighty genius which has immortal- ised the ill - starred love of Francesca , and the paternal agonies of Ugolino . Alfieri bequeathed the sover- eignty of Italian literature to the author of ...
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... ceremony , it never wholly became , like those religions . a merely political and ceremonial institution . VOL . I. 5 1 The beginning of the thirteenth century was , as Machiavelli CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 65.
... ceremony , it never wholly became , like those religions . a merely political and ceremonial institution . VOL . I. 5 1 The beginning of the thirteenth century was , as Machiavelli CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 65.
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