Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 16
... Charles the Twelfth , and ten thousand other questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how ...
... Charles the Twelfth , and ten thousand other questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how ...
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... Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula ceased to form an independent system . Drawn from their old orbit by the attraction of the larger bodies ...
... Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula ceased to form an independent system . Drawn from their old orbit by the attraction of the larger bodies ...
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... Charles the Eighth , were projects which , at that time , fascinated all the master - spirits of Italy . The magnificent vision delighted the great but ill - regulated mind of Julius . It divided with manuscripts and sauces , painters ...
... Charles the Eighth , were projects which , at that time , fascinated all the master - spirits of Italy . The magnificent vision delighted the great but ill - regulated mind of Julius . It divided with manuscripts and sauces , painters ...
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... Charles the Fifth ; and the Court of Rome was , on many important occasions , his tool . He had not , therefore , like the distant princes of the North , a strong selfish motive for attacking the Papacy . In fact , the very measures ...
... Charles the Fifth ; and the Court of Rome was , on many important occasions , his tool . He had not , therefore , like the distant princes of the North , a strong selfish motive for attacking the Papacy . In fact , the very measures ...
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... Charles the Fifth . Into such a state had the mighty kingdom of Spain fallen , while one of its smallest dependencies , a country not so large as the province of Estremadura or Andalusia , situated under an inclement sky , and preserved ...
... Charles the Fifth . Into such a state had the mighty kingdom of Spain fallen , while one of its smallest dependencies , a country not so large as the province of Estremadura or Andalusia , situated under an inclement sky , and preserved ...
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