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... entered the service of the Government by becoming clerk to a treasurer of what were called the parties casuelles . Thus Colbert , though subsequently a warm patron of art and literature , had not received the slightest tincture of a ...
... entered the service of the Government by becoming clerk to a treasurer of what were called the parties casuelles . Thus Colbert , though subsequently a warm patron of art and literature , had not received the slightest tincture of a ...
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... entered into for the recovery of that kingdom also became a source of weakness to herself and of strength to her enemies . If the condition of Germany and Spain favoured the progress of France , that of England offered no obstruction ...
... entered into for the recovery of that kingdom also became a source of weakness to herself and of strength to her enemies . If the condition of Germany and Spain favoured the progress of France , that of England offered no obstruction ...
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... entered Port Royal in 1654. His Lettres Provinciales ( Letters to a Provincial ) were a terrible blow to the Jesuits . It was after this period that they began to direct their attention more to worldly affairs and commerce , to their ...
... entered Port Royal in 1654. His Lettres Provinciales ( Letters to a Provincial ) were a terrible blow to the Jesuits . It was after this period that they began to direct their attention more to worldly affairs and commerce , to their ...
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... entered into a violent controversy with Fénelon , and procured from Pope Innocent XII . a condemnation of that prelate's work , entitled Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure , in which he had explained and defended ...
... entered into a violent controversy with Fénelon , and procured from Pope Innocent XII . a condemnation of that prelate's work , entitled Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure , in which he had explained and defended ...
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... entered the Alberoni was very generally accused by his contemporaries of having been the author of this war ; but it is now acknow ledged that it was undertaken against his will . See Coxe , Spanish Bourbons , vol . ii . p . 275 sq . 2 ...
... entered the Alberoni was very generally accused by his contemporaries of having been the author of this war ; but it is now acknow ledged that it was undertaken against his will . See Coxe , Spanish Bourbons , vol . ii . p . 275 sq . 2 ...
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