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... Paris beginning the grand tour . With that keen sense of the value of time which marked him , Gibbon with great impartiality cast up and estimated the profit and loss of his " bloodless campaigns . " Both have been alluded to already ...
... Paris beginning the grand tour . With that keen sense of the value of time which marked him , Gibbon with great impartiality cast up and estimated the profit and loss of his " bloodless campaigns . " Both have been alluded to already ...
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... would have cost was , according to his wise suggestion , devoted to defray the expenses of his foreign tour , which he is now about to begin . : CHAPTER IV . THE ITALIAN JOURNEY . GIBBON reached Paris 46 [ CHAP . III . GIBBON .
... would have cost was , according to his wise suggestion , devoted to defray the expenses of his foreign tour , which he is now about to begin . : CHAPTER IV . THE ITALIAN JOURNEY . GIBBON reached Paris 46 [ CHAP . III . GIBBON .
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... Paris in the latter half of the eighteenth century and reported variously of their experience and impres- sions . Some , like Hume and Sterne , are delighted ; some , like Gibbon , are quietly , but thoroughly CHAPTER IV THE ITALIAN ...
... Paris in the latter half of the eighteenth century and reported variously of their experience and impres- sions . Some , like Hume and Sterne , are delighted ; some , like Gibbon , are quietly , but thoroughly CHAPTER IV THE ITALIAN ...
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... Paris in the eighteenth century . And yet scholars , men of the world , men of business passed through this wonderland with eyes blindfolded . They are free to enter , they go , they come , without a sign that they have realised the ...
... Paris in the eighteenth century . And yet scholars , men of the world , men of business passed through this wonderland with eyes blindfolded . They are free to enter , they go , they come , without a sign that they have realised the ...
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... Paris , though he liked it well enough when there . He never caught the Paris fever as Hume did , and Sterne , or even as Walpole did , for all the hard things he says of the underbred and overbearing manners of the philosophers ...
... Paris , though he liked it well enough when there . He never caught the Paris fever as Hume did , and Sterne , or even as Walpole did , for all the hard things he says of the underbred and overbearing manners of the philosophers ...
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