Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... known that there were heights in the eloquence of history far beyond the reach of the author of the Life of Charles the Twelfth . the finest heroic poem , several of the most powerful tragedies , and the most brilliant and picturesque ...
... known that there were heights in the eloquence of history far beyond the reach of the author of the Life of Charles the Twelfth . the finest heroic poem , several of the most powerful tragedies , and the most brilliant and picturesque ...
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... known better . Those who thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after Fénelon's pattern . Others predicted the approach of a Medicean age , an age propitious to learning and art , and not unpropitious to pleasure . Nobody had the ...
... known better . Those who thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after Fénelon's pattern . Others predicted the approach of a Medicean age , an age propitious to learning and art , and not unpropitious to pleasure . Nobody had the ...
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... known to inflict this paternal species of correction on any but his born subjects ; though on one occasion M. Thiébault had reason , during a few seconds , to anticipate the high honour of being an exception to this general rule . The ...
... known to inflict this paternal species of correction on any but his born subjects ; though on one occasion M. Thiébault had reason , during a few seconds , to anticipate the high honour of being an exception to this general rule . The ...
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... known chiefly by his high professions of integrity and philanthropy . We will not , ' they wrote , we cannot , believe it . ' 6 6 In the meantime the Prussian forces had been assembled . Without any declaration of war , without any ...
... known chiefly by his high professions of integrity and philanthropy . We will not , ' they wrote , we cannot , believe it . ' 6 6 In the meantime the Prussian forces had been assembled . Without any declaration of war , without any ...
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... known among kings . Lewis the Fourteenth , indeed , had been his own prime minister , and had exercised a general superintendence over all the departments of the government ; but this was not sufficient for Frederic . He was not content ...
... known among kings . Lewis the Fourteenth , indeed , had been his own prime minister , and had exercised a general superintendence over all the departments of the government ; but this was not sufficient for Frederic . He was not content ...
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