Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... spirit was called into action . The Carlovingian sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It ...
... spirit was called into action . The Carlovingian sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It ...
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... spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high- landers of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
... spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high- landers of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. daring spirits have been treated with indulgence , and even with respect ... spirit redeems everything . The unsuspecting confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. daring spirits have been treated with indulgence , and even with respect ... spirit redeems everything . The unsuspecting confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which ...
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... spirit and by an honourable ambition . A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice . The evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former ...
... spirit and by an honourable ambition . A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice . The evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former ...
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... spirit . The hypocritical confessor is an admirable portrait . He is , if we mistake not , the original of Father ... spirits supply , to a certain degree , the place of cleverness . His talk is to that of Sir John what soda water is to ...
... spirit . The hypocritical confessor is an admirable portrait . He is , if we mistake not , the original of Father ... spirits supply , to a certain degree , the place of cleverness . His talk is to that of Sir John what soda water is to ...
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