Historical StudiesLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865 - 472 páginas |
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... writers , artists , noblemen , magistrates , ministers , sovereigns themselves . For a mo- ment only , the new spirit found itself master of society , from foundation to summit : when it had penetrated into the Court of Prussia ...
... writers , artists , noblemen , magistrates , ministers , sovereigns themselves . For a mo- ment only , the new spirit found itself master of society , from foundation to summit : when it had penetrated into the Court of Prussia ...
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... writers , cach contributing his separate pleading for his own favoured side , and thereby conveying more of truth to the reader than could have been derived from any single record , however careful and im- partial - by adding to it a ...
... writers , cach contributing his separate pleading for his own favoured side , and thereby conveying more of truth to the reader than could have been derived from any single record , however careful and im- partial - by adding to it a ...
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... writer of travels , Aubrey de Vere , who , happen- ing to meet the Sultan in a stroll through Constantinople , and being apparently a little discomposed by a look of this description , thus describes it : That gaze in which there 6 is ...
... writer of travels , Aubrey de Vere , who , happen- ing to meet the Sultan in a stroll through Constantinople , and being apparently a little discomposed by a look of this description , thus describes it : That gaze in which there 6 is ...
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... writers ( and they were many ) who engaged from 1750 to 1790 in the cause of ' Aufklärung ' ( enlightenment ) , the condition of the serf peasantry of Southern and Eastern Germany was in their time rather retrograde than improving . But ...
... writers ( and they were many ) who engaged from 1750 to 1790 in the cause of ' Aufklärung ' ( enlightenment ) , the condition of the serf peasantry of Southern and Eastern Germany was in their time rather retrograde than improving . But ...
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... writers , and ostentatiously invited , by the language of his decree , criticisms on himself and his government . And he kept his word with the pam- phleteers of the day , though rather against the grain . Catherine despised such ...
... writers , and ostentatiously invited , by the language of his decree , criticisms on himself and his government . And he kept his word with the pam- phleteers of the day , though rather against the grain . Catherine despised such ...
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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?