Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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... seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran diplomatist ...
... seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villainy and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran diplomatist ...
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... seems to think that it ought scarcely to produce any change in the mode of arming or of disposing troops . The general testimony of historians , it must be allowed , seems to prove that the ill - constructed and ill - served artillery ...
... seems to think that it ought scarcely to produce any change in the mode of arming or of disposing troops . The general testimony of historians , it must be allowed , seems to prove that the ill - constructed and ill - served artillery ...
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... seems to have been rather stern and impetuous than pliant and artful . When the misery and degradation of Florence and the foul outrage which he had himself sustained recur to his mind , the smooth craft of his profession and his nation ...
... seems to have been rather stern and impetuous than pliant and artful . When the misery and degradation of Florence and the foul outrage which he had himself sustained recur to his mind , the smooth craft of his profession and his nation ...
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