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... present publication , which tells " a plain unvarnished tale , " will not be unwelcome . In these days of universal criticism , no per- son is exempt from the carping mood of the envious , or the facile unreasoning of the ready - made ...
... present publication , which tells " a plain unvarnished tale , " will not be unwelcome . In these days of universal criticism , no per- son is exempt from the carping mood of the envious , or the facile unreasoning of the ready - made ...
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... present remarkable occupant of the French throne , he is not tided along by public events ; nor , like that potentate , does he extract fame from an adroit bowing to the exigencies of the hour . The French sover- eign has eliminated a ...
... present remarkable occupant of the French throne , he is not tided along by public events ; nor , like that potentate , does he extract fame from an adroit bowing to the exigencies of the hour . The French sover- eign has eliminated a ...
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... presents rather a contrast than a likeness to Greek or Roman statesmen - they sought the Agora or the Forum ; he has no time for claptrap . But let us turn to the political doctrine , partly known as that of divine right , for which ...
... presents rather a contrast than a likeness to Greek or Roman statesmen - they sought the Agora or the Forum ; he has no time for claptrap . But let us turn to the political doctrine , partly known as that of divine right , for which ...
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... presents only delusive points of contact . Any adequate explanation must be sought in another direction , and that direction is best pointed out by the very essential fea- tures of Prussian history itself . From this cause , a ...
... presents only delusive points of contact . Any adequate explanation must be sought in another direction , and that direction is best pointed out by the very essential fea- tures of Prussian history itself . From this cause , a ...
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... present events , in their interests , instincts , and sympathies ? There was , of course , underlying all this , the cardinal fact of a difference of religious sympathies . So eminently Roman Catho- lic , ruling over nations outwardly ...
... present events , in their interests , instincts , and sympathies ? There was , of course , underlying all this , the cardinal fact of a difference of religious sympathies . So eminently Roman Catho- lic , ruling over nations outwardly ...
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