Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... French Protestant . The It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explana- tion of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As ...
... French Protestant . The It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explana- tion of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As ...
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... French , indulged in violation of hospitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them objects of deadly hatred to the inhabitants of the Peninsula . The wealth which had ...
... French , indulged in violation of hospitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them objects of deadly hatred to the inhabitants of the Peninsula . The wealth which had ...
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... celebrity than any political writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good luck of a Valentine . He caught the eye of the French nation , at 32 Macaulay's Essays.
... celebrity than any political writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good luck of a Valentine . He caught the eye of the French nation , at 32 Macaulay's Essays.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He caught the eye of the French nation , at the moment when it was waking from the long sleep of political and religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he became a favourite . The English , at ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He caught the eye of the French nation , at the moment when it was waking from the long sleep of political and religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he became a favourite . The English , at ...
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... French version . It is , indeed , the work of a mind fitted both for minute researches and for large speculations . It is written also in an admirable spirit , equally remote from levity and bigotry , serious and earnest , yet tolerant ...
... French version . It is , indeed , the work of a mind fitted both for minute researches and for large speculations . It is written also in an admirable spirit , equally remote from levity and bigotry , serious and earnest , yet tolerant ...
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