Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of intellect had been turned into arid ...
... received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of intellect had been turned into arid ...
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... receiving the dreaded shock on an impenetrable forest of pikes . The use of the Grecian spear , the Roman sword , or the modern bayonet , might be acquired with comparative ease . But nothing short of the daily exercise of years could ...
... receiving the dreaded shock on an impenetrable forest of pikes . The use of the Grecian spear , the Roman sword , or the modern bayonet , might be acquired with comparative ease . But nothing short of the daily exercise of years could ...
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... received , he arranged them more luminously , and expressed them more forcibly , than any other writer . Having now , we hope , in some degree cleared the personal character of Machiavelli , we come to the consideration of his works ...
... received , he arranged them more luminously , and expressed them more forcibly , than any other writer . Having now , we hope , in some degree cleared the personal character of Machiavelli , we come to the consideration of his works ...
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... received ; and the Jansenian controversy had not yet arisen . The whole force of Rome was , therefore , effective for the purpose of carrying on the war against the Reformation . On the other hand , the force which ought to have fought ...
... received ; and the Jansenian controversy had not yet arisen . The whole force of Rome was , therefore , effective for the purpose of carrying on the war against the Reformation . On the other hand , the force which ought to have fought ...
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... received in the struggle with Port - Royal . It was now still more rudely assailed by the philosophers . Its spirit was broken ; its reputation was tainted . Insulted by all the men of genius in Europe , con- demned by the civil ...
... received in the struggle with Port - Royal . It was now still more rudely assailed by the philosophers . Its spirit was broken ; its reputation was tainted . Insulted by all the men of genius in Europe , con- demned by the civil ...
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