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Page 129
... illustration when the same bust was dragged round the hall in contumely by Gentili's republicans . But the French fashion has prevailed in recent times , and the people of his native canton of Rostino have erected to him ( 1854 ) a ...
... illustration when the same bust was dragged round the hall in contumely by Gentili's republicans . But the French fashion has prevailed in recent times , and the people of his native canton of Rostino have erected to him ( 1854 ) a ...
Page 198
... illustrated in the notes , almost throughout , with examples and precedents from English history . 5. Tableau des Vices de la Constitution Anglaise , présenté en août 1789 aux États - Généraux , comme une série d'écueils à éviter dans ...
... illustrated in the notes , almost throughout , with examples and precedents from English history . 5. Tableau des Vices de la Constitution Anglaise , présenté en août 1789 aux États - Généraux , comme une série d'écueils à éviter dans ...
Page 229
... illustrated her monumental history and actual life , with wit , feeling , and philosophy . Saint Foix is respectable , and sometimes amusing . Mercier , in his two Tableaux de Paris , has given a specimen of a singular thinker , not ...
... illustrated her monumental history and actual life , with wit , feeling , and philosophy . Saint Foix is respectable , and sometimes amusing . Mercier , in his two Tableaux de Paris , has given a specimen of a singular thinker , not ...
Page 326
... Illustrations of the Great Rebellion ' ) , whose accuracy in describing the ground I have had occasion to test , and whose copious historical narrative can scarcely be more than abridged . Some por- tions of it , however , are not easy ...
... Illustrations of the Great Rebellion ' ) , whose accuracy in describing the ground I have had occasion to test , and whose copious historical narrative can scarcely be more than abridged . Some por- tions of it , however , are not easy ...
Page 396
... illustration to those meagre legendary traditions which speak of the immigration from Ireland into their peninsula of that series of saints , male and female , who have given strange names , unknown to other hagiologies , to the ...
... illustration to those meagre legendary traditions which speak of the immigration from Ireland into their peninsula of that series of saints , male and female , who have given strange names , unknown to other hagiologies , to the ...
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