Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 7
... feelings about his troops seems to have resembled a miser's feeling about his money . He loved to collect them , to count them , to see them increase ; but he could not find it in his heart to break in upon the precious hoard . He ...
... feelings about his troops seems to have resembled a miser's feeling about his money . He loved to collect them , to count them , to see them increase ; but he could not find it in his heart to break in upon the precious hoard . He ...
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... feelings of millions would be cruelly outraged , and that great provinces which had been united for centuries would be torn from each other by main force . The sovereigns of Europe were , therefore , bound by every obligation which ...
... feelings of millions would be cruelly outraged , and that great provinces which had been united for centuries would be torn from each other by main force . The sovereigns of Europe were , therefore , bound by every obligation which ...
Page 37
... feelings which are necessary to the best kind of army were then wanting to the Prussian service . In those ranks were not found the religious and political enthusiasm which inspired the pikemen of Cromwell , the patriotic ardour , the ...
... feelings which are necessary to the best kind of army were then wanting to the Prussian service . In those ranks were not found the religious and political enthusiasm which inspired the pikemen of Cromwell , the patriotic ardour , the ...
Page 48
... feelings under the semblance of good humour or of contempt . With all his great talents , and all his long experience of the world , he had no more self - command than a petted child , or a hysterical woman . Whenever he was mortified ...
... feelings under the semblance of good humour or of contempt . With all his great talents , and all his long experience of the world , he had no more self - command than a petted child , or a hysterical woman . Whenever he was mortified ...
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... feelings . Both were angry ; and a war began , in which Frederic stooped to the part of Harpagon , and Voltaire to that of Scapin . It is humiliating to relate , that the great warrior and states- man gave orders that his guest's ...
... feelings . Both were angry ; and a war began , in which Frederic stooped to the part of Harpagon , and Voltaire to that of Scapin . It is humiliating to relate , that the great warrior and states- man gave orders that his guest's ...
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