Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... produced a single masterpiece of poetry or eloquence . In Germany , therefore , the French taste reigned without rival and without limit . Every youth of rank was taught to speak and write French . That he should speak and write his own ...
... produced a single masterpiece of poetry or eloquence . In Germany , therefore , the French taste reigned without rival and without limit . Every youth of rank was taught to speak and write French . That he should speak and write his own ...
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... produced such exquisitely Ciceronian phrases as these : -Stante pede morire , ' De gustibus non est disputandus ... produce immortal eloquence and song . And , indeed , had he been blessed with more imagina- tion , wit , and fertility of ...
... produced such exquisitely Ciceronian phrases as these : -Stante pede morire , ' De gustibus non est disputandus ... produce immortal eloquence and song . And , indeed , had he been blessed with more imagina- tion , wit , and fertility of ...
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... produce all the evils which result from arbitrary confiscation , and would make all property insecure . It concerns the commonwealth- -so runs the legal maxim - that there be an end of litigation . And surely this maxim is at least ...
... produce all the evils which result from arbitrary confiscation , and would make all property insecure . It concerns the commonwealth- -so runs the legal maxim - that there be an end of litigation . And surely this maxim is at least ...
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... produced , and could not fail to produce , on the whole community of civilised nations , we are compelled to pronounce a condemnation still more severe . Till he began the war , it seemed possible , even probable , that the peace of the ...
... produced , and could not fail to produce , on the whole community of civilised nations , we are compelled to pronounce a condemnation still more severe . Till he began the war , it seemed possible , even probable , that the peace of the ...
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... produced a series of plays on the same subjects which his rival had treated . These pieces were coolly received . Angry with the court , angry with the capital , Voltaire began to find pleasure in the prospect of exile . His attachment ...
... produced a series of plays on the same subjects which his rival had treated . These pieces were coolly received . Angry with the court , angry with the capital , Voltaire began to find pleasure in the prospect of exile . His attachment ...
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