Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... honour of his instructions . His coronation agitated the Court of Naples and the people of Rome as much as the most important political transaction could have done . To collect books and antiques , to found professorships , to patronise ...
... honour of his instructions . His coronation agitated the Court of Naples and the people of Rome as much as the most important political transaction could have done . To collect books and antiques , to found professorships , to patronise ...
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... honour in other countries , ingenuity became the point of honour in Italy . From these principles were deduced , by processes strictly analogous , two opposite systems of fashionable morality . Through the greater part of Europe , the ...
... honour in other countries , ingenuity became the point of honour in Italy . From these principles were deduced , by processes strictly analogous , two opposite systems of fashionable morality . Through the greater part of Europe , the ...
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... honour sullied , an enlightened and flourishing people given over to the ferocity of ignorant savages . Though his opinions had not escaped the contagion of that political immorality which was common among his countrymen , his natural ...
... honour sullied , an enlightened and flourishing people given over to the ferocity of ignorant savages . Though his opinions had not escaped the contagion of that political immorality which was common among his countrymen , his natural ...
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... honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument was erected to his memory , which is contemplated with reverence by all who can distinguish the virtues of a great mind through the corruptions of a ...
... honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument was erected to his memory , which is contemplated with reverence by all who can distinguish the virtues of a great mind through the corruptions of a ...
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... honours and advantages which she enjoyed as the seat of the government of the Universal Church . It was in Italy that the tributes were spent of which foreign nations so bitterly complained . It was to adorn Italy that the traffic in ...
... honours and advantages which she enjoyed as the seat of the government of the Universal Church . It was in Italy that the tributes were spent of which foreign nations so bitterly complained . It was to adorn Italy that the traffic in ...
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