Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
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... whole machinery of the Church , its saints and its miracles , its lofty pretensions and its splendid ceremonial , its worthless blessings and its harmless curses , too long and too closely to be duped . They stood behind the scenes on ...
... whole machinery of the Church , its saints and its miracles , its lofty pretensions and its splendid ceremonial , its worthless blessings and its harmless curses , too long and too closely to be duped . They stood behind the scenes on ...
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... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
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... whole Hotel of Ram- bouillet . To prove the whole system of this school erroneous , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel , to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated ...
... whole Hotel of Ram- bouillet . To prove the whole system of this school erroneous , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel , to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated ...
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... whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula ceased to form an independent system . Drawn from their old orbit by the attraction of the larger bodies which now approached them , they became mere ...
... whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula ceased to form an independent system . Drawn from their old orbit by the attraction of the larger bodies which now approached them , they became mere ...
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