Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... received a bounty of near thirteen hundred pounds sterling , very much more than the ambassador's salary . This extravagance was the more absurd , because a stout youth of five feet eight , who might have been procured for a few dollars ...
... received a bounty of near thirteen hundred pounds sterling , very much more than the ambassador's salary . This extravagance was the more absurd , because a stout youth of five feet eight , who might have been procured for a few dollars ...
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... received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper and intensity of will . As to the other parts of his character , it is difficult to say whether they are to be ascribed to nature , or to the strange ...
... received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper and intensity of will . As to the other parts of his character , it is difficult to say whether they are to be ascribed to nature , or to the strange ...
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... received with every mark of respect and friendship , was lodged in the palace , and had a seat daily at the royal table . The negotiation was of an extraordinary description . Nothing can be con- ceived more whimsical than the ...
... received with every mark of respect and friendship , was lodged in the palace , and had a seat daily at the royal table . The negotiation was of an extraordinary description . Nothing can be con- ceived more whimsical than the ...
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... received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has left on record his opinion of Voltaire's diplomacy . He had no credentials ...
... received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has left on record his opinion of Voltaire's diplomacy . He had no credentials ...
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... received next day , from a royal messenger , Frederic's answer signed by Frederic's own hand . This was an extravagant , a morbid activity . The public business would as- suredly have been better done if each department had been put ...
... received next day , from a royal messenger , Frederic's answer signed by Frederic's own hand . This was an extravagant , a morbid activity . The public business would as- suredly have been better done if each department had been put ...
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