Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... tion , under the command of Prince Eugene , during a campaign marked by no extraordinary events . was now permitted to keep a separate establishment , and was therefore able to indulge with caution his own tastes . Partly in order to ...
... tion , under the command of Prince Eugene , during a campaign marked by no extraordinary events . was now permitted to keep a separate establishment , and was therefore able to indulge with caution his own tastes . Partly in order to ...
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... tion , wit , and fertility of 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 ...
... tion , wit , and fertility of 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 ...
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... tion , of light literature , led many to regard him as a sensual and intellectual voluptuary . His habit of canting about moderation , peace , liberty , and the happiness which a good mind derives from the happiness of others , had ...
... tion , of light literature , led many to regard him as a sensual and intellectual voluptuary . His habit of canting about moderation , peace , liberty , and the happiness which a good mind derives from the happiness of others , had ...
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... who tired out her immortal horses in the work of raising the nations against Troy , and who offered to give up to destruc- tion her darling Sparta and Mycenæ , if only she might once see the smoke going up from the palace of.
... who tired out her immortal horses in the work of raising the nations against Troy , and who offered to give up to destruc- tion her darling Sparta and Mycenæ , if only she might once see the smoke going up from the palace of.
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... tion such as Europe had never seen . Nothing would content her but that the whole civilised world , from the White Sea to the Adriatic , from the Bay of Biscay to the pastures of the wild horses of the Tanais , should be combined in ...
... tion such as Europe had never seen . Nothing would content her but that the whole civilised world , from the White Sea to the Adriatic , from the Bay of Biscay to the pastures of the wild horses of the Tanais , should be combined in ...
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