Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 6
... became passions , and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military pomp and order became a mania , like that of a Dutch burgo ...
... became passions , and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military pomp and order became a mania , like that of a Dutch burgo ...
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... became worse when the Prince Royal attained that time of life at which the great revolution in the human mind and body takes place . He was guilty of some youthful indiscretions , which no good and wise parent would regard with severity ...
... became worse when the Prince Royal attained that time of life at which the great revolution in the human mind and body takes place . He was guilty of some youthful indiscretions , which no good and wise parent would regard with severity ...
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... became King of Prussia . His character was little understood . That he had good abilities , indeed , no person who had talked with him , or corresponded with him , could doubt . But the easy Epicurean life which he had led , his love of ...
... became King of Prussia . His character was little understood . That he had good abilities , indeed , no person who had talked with him , or corresponded with him , could doubt . But the easy Epicurean life which he had led , his love of ...
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... became plain that , in the most important points , the new sovereign bore a strong family likeness to his predecessor . There was indeed a wide difference between the father and the son as respected extent and vigour of intellect ...
... became plain that , in the most important points , the new sovereign bore a strong family likeness to his predecessor . There was indeed a wide difference between the father and the son as respected extent and vigour of intellect ...
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... of ferocious warriors from that bloody debatable land which lies on the frontier between Christendom and Islam . The terrible names of the Pandoor , the Croat , and the Hussar , then first became familiar to western Europe .
... of ferocious warriors from that bloody debatable land which lies on the frontier between Christendom and Islam . The terrible names of the Pandoor , the Croat , and the Hussar , then first became familiar to western Europe .
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