Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... honour of being in- troduced to the world by the author of Lochiel and Hohenlinden , is not wholly unworthy of so distinguished a chaperon . It professes , indeed , to be no more than a compilation ; but it is an exceedingly amusing com ...
... honour of being in- troduced to the world by the author of Lochiel and Hohenlinden , is not wholly unworthy of so distinguished a chaperon . It professes , indeed , to be no more than a compilation ; but it is an exceedingly amusing com ...
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... honour of being an exception to this general rule . The character of Frederic was still very imperfectly understood either by his subjects or by his neighbours , when events occurred which exhibited it in a strong light . A few months ...
... honour of being an exception to this general rule . The character of Frederic was still very imperfectly understood either by his subjects or by his neighbours , when events occurred which exhibited it in a strong light . A few months ...
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... honour which were expected from the society of the first wit of the age . A thousand louis were remitted for the charges of the journey . No ambassador setting out from Berlin for a court of the first rank , had ever been more amply ...
... honour which were expected from the society of the first wit of the age . A thousand louis were remitted for the charges of the journey . No ambassador setting out from Berlin for a court of the first rank , had ever been more amply ...
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... honour handsome . But ' . delicious . This eccentric friendship was fast cooling . Never had there met two persons so exquisitely fitted to plague each other . Each of them had exactly the fault of which the other was most impatient ...
... honour handsome . But ' . delicious . This eccentric friendship was fast cooling . Never had there met two persons so exquisitely fitted to plague each other . Each of them had exactly the fault of which the other was most impatient ...
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... honour to borrow money of him , and even carried this condescending friendship so far as to forget to pay the interest . Voltaire thought that it might be in his power to bring the Duke and the King of Prussia into communication with ...
... honour to borrow money of him , and even carried this condescending friendship so far as to forget to pay the interest . Voltaire thought that it might be in his power to bring the Duke and the King of Prussia into communication with ...
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