Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 32
... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
Page 539
... lived have written biography , Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
... lived have written biography , Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
Page 668
... lived weekly papers in the year 1838 , 512 Saxe , led the invading Austrian army into Bohemia , and afterward became a marshal of the French army , defeating the Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy , 1745 , 139 Scamander , a river of Troas ...
... lived weekly papers in the year 1838 , 512 Saxe , led the invading Austrian army into Bohemia , and afterward became a marshal of the French army , defeating the Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy , 1745 , 139 Scamander , a river of Troas ...
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