Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1951 - 1338 pages |
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... writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of characters ... writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the ...
... writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of characters ... writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the ...
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... writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . We think that we have sometimes observed a leaning towards the same fault in writers of a much higher order of ...
... writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . We think that we have sometimes observed a leaning towards the same fault in writers of a much higher order of ...
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... writer , who served in the French army as aide- de - camp to Marshal Ney ( 1779-1869 ) , 145 Jourdain , Monsieur , the honest but un- educated tradesman of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , whose sudden wealth lands him in absurd ...
... writer , who served in the French army as aide- de - camp to Marshal Ney ( 1779-1869 ) , 145 Jourdain , Monsieur , the honest but un- educated tradesman of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , whose sudden wealth lands him in absurd ...
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HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 77 |
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