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... dialect , as ein ganz aimabler perfecter cava- lier . ' Baron Reitzenstein , author of a ' Journey to Vienna ' ( 1789 ) , describes not amiss this double aspect of Joseph's outward demeanour . When I entered the room , ' JOSEPH II . 9.
... dialect , as ein ganz aimabler perfecter cava- lier . ' Baron Reitzenstein , author of a ' Journey to Vienna ' ( 1789 ) , describes not amiss this double aspect of Joseph's outward demeanour . When I entered the room , ' JOSEPH II . 9.
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... author's real name was Von Hontheim , a suffragan of the Arch- bishop of Treves , and bishop in partibus of Myriophyta . The object of the writer was that which has been aimed at , in renewed attempts , century after century , by one ...
... author's real name was Von Hontheim , a suffragan of the Arch- bishop of Treves , and bishop in partibus of Myriophyta . The object of the writer was that which has been aimed at , in renewed attempts , century after century , by one ...
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... author , at eighty , was ultimately driven into an unwilling retractation , but not until after some years of popularity . During the life of his mother , Joseph carefully avoided any positive encouragement of ' Febronianism . ' He re ...
... author , at eighty , was ultimately driven into an unwilling retractation , but not until after some years of popularity . During the life of his mother , Joseph carefully avoided any positive encouragement of ' Febronianism . ' He re ...
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... authors . So far as his innovations merely curtailed the authority of ecclesiastical tribunals in civil matters , or superseded it by that of imperial functionaries , they were unquestion- ably in the right direction . But they went ...
... authors . So far as his innovations merely curtailed the authority of ecclesiastical tribunals in civil matters , or superseded it by that of imperial functionaries , they were unquestion- ably in the right direction . But they went ...
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... Author of the Mémoires Sécrets sur la Russie et sur les Règnes de Cathe- rine et Paul II . , a scandalous work in many respects , but written with more intimate knowledge of facts , and more acuteness of judgement , than are usually met ...
... Author of the Mémoires Sécrets sur la Russie et sur les Règnes de Cathe- rine et Paul II . , a scandalous work in many respects , but written with more intimate knowledge of facts , and more acuteness of judgement , than are usually met ...
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Page 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Page 188 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios ! must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces ? Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face the "sweet assurance of a look?