Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... thought too extravagant for tall recruits . The ambition of the King was to form a brigade of giants , and every country was ransacked by his agents for men above the ordinary stature . These researches were not confined to Europe . No ...
... thought too extravagant for tall recruits . The ambition of the King was to form a brigade of giants , and every country was ransacked by his agents for men above the ordinary stature . These researches were not confined to Europe . No ...
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... thought malignity a part of his duty as a Christian man , and all the conscience that he had stimulated his hatred . The flute was broken : the French books were sent out of the palace : the Prince was kicked and cudgelled , and pulled ...
... thought malignity a part of his duty as a Christian man , and all the conscience that he had stimulated his hatred . The flute was broken : the French books were sent out of the palace : the Prince was kicked and cudgelled , and pulled ...
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... thought it necessary that his children should know French , and quite unnecessary that they should be well versed in German . The Latin was positively interdicted . My son , ' his Majesty wrote , ' shall not learn Latin ; and , more ...
... thought it necessary that his children should know French , and quite unnecessary that they should be well versed in German . The Latin was positively interdicted . My son , ' his Majesty wrote , ' shall not learn Latin ; and , more ...
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... thought , than he appears to have had , he would still have been subject to one great disadvantage , which would , in all probability , have for ever prevented him from taking a high place among men of letters . He had not the full ...
... thought , than he appears to have had , he would still have been subject to one great disadvantage , which would , in all probability , have for ever prevented him from taking a high place among men of letters . He had not the full ...
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... thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after FĂ©nelon'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 least suspicion that a ...
... thought best of him , expected a Telemachus after FĂ©nelon'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 least suspicion that a ...
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