Modern Europe, Volume 4 |
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Popular passages
Page 369 - Assembly required the clergy to take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the law, and the King, and to maintain the Constitution.
Page 310 - Fontenelle was their precursor, whose long life, extending from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, rendered him the connecting link between the literature of the two periods.
Page 18 - words of art" as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Page 327 - I foresee, that, before the end of this century, the trade of both king and priest will not be half so good a one as it has been.