Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... 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 this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations ...
... 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 this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations ...
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... feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their defeats . The contract loses something of its mercantile character . The services of the soldier are considered as the effects of ...
... feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their defeats . The contract loses something of its mercantile character . The services of the soldier are considered as the effects of ...
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... feelings concurred to mitigate the hostility of those who had lately been brethren in arms , and who might soon be brethren in arms once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten even when they were ...
... feelings concurred to mitigate the hostility of those who had lately been brethren in arms , and who might soon be brethren in arms once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten even when they were ...
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... feelings , were , at the same time , ignorant , arbitrary , and cruel . With the vanquished people were deposited all the art , the science , and the literature of the Western world . In poetry , in philo- sophy , in painting , in ...
... feelings , were , at the same time , ignorant , arbitrary , and cruel . With the vanquished people were deposited all the art , the science , and the literature of the Western world . In poetry , in philo- sophy , in painting , in ...
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... feelings of others , and to delight in the charities and courtesies of social life . Perpetually descending to actions which might seem to mark a mind diseased through all its faculties , he had nevertheless an exquisite sensibility ...
... feelings of others , and to delight in the charities and courtesies of social life . Perpetually descending to actions which might seem to mark a mind diseased through all its faculties , he had nevertheless an exquisite sensibility ...
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