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... hands of all persons of taste , not only in France , but also throughout Europe . For a like reason we pass over the great French writers who adorned the eighteenth century , many of whom will not suffer by a comparison with their ...
... hands of all persons of taste , not only in France , but also throughout Europe . For a like reason we pass over the great French writers who adorned the eighteenth century , many of whom will not suffer by a comparison with their ...
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... hand , in those countries where the Reformation was entirely successful , as England and the Scandinavian Kingdoms , its tendency was to develop and in- crease the national power . It is true that the different German Princes , and ...
... hand , in those countries where the Reformation was entirely successful , as England and the Scandinavian Kingdoms , its tendency was to develop and in- crease the national power . It is true that the different German Princes , and ...
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... hand , little or no Im- perial patronage shone on German literature , because almost all the men of geuius were Protestants . Leopold , who , being bred up to the Church , had received a scholastic education , amused himself by inditing ...
... hand , little or no Im- perial patronage shone on German literature , because almost all the men of geuius were Protestants . Leopold , who , being bred up to the Church , had received a scholastic education , amused himself by inditing ...
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... hands of Francis Suarez , a Jesuit of Granada , who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century . One of the books of his " Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore " is devoted to the law of nature ...
... hands of Francis Suarez , a Jesuit of Granada , who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century . One of the books of his " Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore " is devoted to the law of nature ...
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... hand through the medium of the Portuguese . We have already given a general sketch of the progress of the Dutch in the East Indies . ' Batavia , founded in 1619 , became the centre of their commerce and the seat of their government in ...
... hand through the medium of the Portuguese . We have already given a general sketch of the progress of the Dutch in the East Indies . ' Batavia , founded in 1619 , became the centre of their commerce and the seat of their government in ...
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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...
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