Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... took shelter under the protection of the powerful commonwealths which they were unable to oppose , and gradually sank into the mass of burghers . In other places they possessed great influence ; but it was an influence widely different ...
... took shelter under the protection of the powerful commonwealths which they were unable to oppose , and gradually sank into the mass of burghers . In other places they possessed great influence ; but it was an influence widely different ...
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... took it for granted that , in providing for the strength and greatness of the state , they sufficiently provided for the happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred ...
... took it for granted that , in providing for the strength and greatness of the state , they sufficiently provided for the happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred ...
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... took place . The secular authority , long unduly depressed , regained the ascendant with startling rapidity . The change is doubtless to be ascribed chiefly to the general disgust excited by the way in which the Church had abused its ...
... took place . The secular authority , long unduly depressed , regained the ascendant with startling rapidity . The change is doubtless to be ascribed chiefly to the general disgust excited by the way in which the Church had abused its ...
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... took the turn of Protestantism . The religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it ...
... took the turn of Protestantism . The religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it ...
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... took up his abode , tended the poor in the hospitals , went about in rags , starved himself almost to death , and often sallied into the streets , mounted on stones , and , waving his hat to invite the passers - by , began to preach in ...
... took up his abode , tended the poor in the hospitals , went about in rags , starved himself almost to death , and often sallied into the streets , mounted on stones , and , waving his hat to invite the passers - by , began to preach in ...
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