Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... human beings . Wise men , however , have always been inclined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the multitude : and in the present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question ...
... human beings . Wise men , however , have always been inclined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the multitude : and in the present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question ...
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... human nature . Such a prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish ambition of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of ...
... human nature . Such a prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish ambition of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of ...
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... human nature from what is essential and immutable . In this respect no history suggests more important reflections than that of the Tuscan and Lombard commonwealths . The character of the Italian statesman seems , at first sight , a ...
... human nature from what is essential and immutable . In this respect no history suggests more important reflections than that of the Tuscan and Lombard commonwealths . The character of the Italian statesman seems , at first sight , a ...
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... human character . This , we conceive , is no arbitrary canon , originating in local and temporary associations , like those canons which regulate the number of acts in a play , or of syllables in a line . To this fundamental law every ...
... human character . This , we conceive , is no arbitrary canon , originating in local and temporary associations , like those canons which regulate the number of acts in a play , or of syllables in a line . To this fundamental law every ...
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... human prudence could have averted , he was the prisoner of the deadliest enemy of his house . These interviews between the greatest speculative and the greatest practical statesman of the age are fully described in the Cor- respondence ...
... human prudence could have averted , he was the prisoner of the deadliest enemy of his house . These interviews between the greatest speculative and the greatest practical statesman of the age are fully described in the Cor- respondence ...
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