Historical StudiesLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865 - 472 páginas |
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... French Revolution , ' I cannot do better than transcribe the nervous sentences in which Louis Blanc has summed up the career and influence of those men of the eighteenth century who , in their several capacities , contributed to bring ...
... French Revolution , ' I cannot do better than transcribe the nervous sentences in which Louis Blanc has summed up the career and influence of those men of the eighteenth century who , in their several capacities , contributed to bring ...
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... French Revolution itself - which has been so abundantly elabo- rated by the ablest writers , cach contributing his separate pleading for his own favoured side , and thereby conveying more of truth to the reader than could have been ...
... French Revolution itself - which has been so abundantly elabo- rated by the ablest writers , cach contributing his separate pleading for his own favoured side , and thereby conveying more of truth to the reader than could have been ...
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... . SCENERY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CORNWALL 355 THE LANDSCAPE OF ANCIENT ITALY , AS DELINEATED IN THE POM- PEIAN PAINTINGS 416 A VISIT TO MALTA , 1857 . 450 THE ANGEL OF BYZANTIUM 469 I. ON SOME OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
... . SCENERY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CORNWALL 355 THE LANDSCAPE OF ANCIENT ITALY , AS DELINEATED IN THE POM- PEIAN PAINTINGS 416 A VISIT TO MALTA , 1857 . 450 THE ANGEL OF BYZANTIUM 469 I. ON SOME OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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Herman Merivale. I. ON SOME OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1. JOSEPH THE SECOND . 2. CATHERINE THE SECOND . 3 . PASCAL PAOLI . 4. VOLTAIRE , ROUSSEAU , AND GÖTHE . 5. A FEW WORDS ON JUNIUS AND ON MARAT . 6. BENJAMIN ...
Herman Merivale. I. ON SOME OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . 1. JOSEPH THE SECOND . 2. CATHERINE THE SECOND . 3 . PASCAL PAOLI . 4. VOLTAIRE , ROUSSEAU , AND GÖTHE . 5. A FEW WORDS ON JUNIUS AND ON MARAT . 6. BENJAMIN ...
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... French ladies were intro- duced to him : how polite , refined , and soft his manner at once became ! The imperious monarch disappeared : the most prepossessing attractive man of the world stood before me instead . ' One of the most ...
... French ladies were intro- duced to him : how polite , refined , and soft his manner at once became ! The imperious monarch disappeared : the most prepossessing attractive man of the world stood before me instead . ' One of the most ...
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Página 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Página 188 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios ! must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces ? Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face the "sweet assurance of a look?