 Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.  Contarini Fleming. Alroy. Romances - Page 165by Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1832 - 204 pages
...Life of Richelieu—every thing about Napoleon,—read works of that kind. Strelamb will prepare you a list. Read no history : nothing but biography, for...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself " You ride... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 482 pages
...Richelieu, everything about Napoleon: read -works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Bead no history, nothing but biography, for that is life...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1846 - 398 pages
...of Richelieu — everything about Napoleon, — read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history : nothing but biography, for...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1853 - 286 pages
...Life of Richelieu— everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...life of Richelieu — everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history. Nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk one hour with your French master, but do not throw the burthen of your conversation on him,' &c., &c.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 116 pages
...of Richelieu — every thing about Napoleon — read works of that kind. Strelamb will prepare you a list. Read no history — nothing but biography,...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 pages
...life of Richelieu — everything about Napoleon ; read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 728 pages
...Life of Richelieu, everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for...something. Describe to him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then sufficiently rested yourself for your... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1921 - 822 pages
...greatest interest, both from a historical and biographical point of view. The author quotes the passage “Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory”, and although readers will probably not endorse that di¿tum in its entirety, it may be agreed that... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1878 - 480 pages
...the Life of Richelieu, everything about Napoleon: read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for...upon him. Give him an account of something. Describe to.him the events of yesterday, or give him a detailed account of the constitution. You will have then... | |
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