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... close contact with kings : it enveloped them ; it subjugated them ; it dictated to their lips words of strange meaning ; it drove them on , excited by the praises they received , even to the destruction of those altars which had for so ...
... close contact with kings : it enveloped them ; it subjugated them ; it dictated to their lips words of strange meaning ; it drove them on , excited by the praises they received , even to the destruction of those altars which had for so ...
Page 62
... close contact with them . Potentates of mean abilities are wise in keeping observation at a re- spectful distance . Those of dissolute manners soon allow the ease of the circle to degenerate into licence . The perfection of that around ...
... close contact with them . Potentates of mean abilities are wise in keeping observation at a re- spectful distance . Those of dissolute manners soon allow the ease of the circle to degenerate into licence . The perfection of that around ...
Page 83
... close adhesion and mutual protection could men preserve themselves from daily aggression . But it was not , as elsewhere , a spirit of feudal dependence . The old ' signori ' of Corsica , never very prominent in its affairs , seem to ...
... close adhesion and mutual protection could men preserve themselves from daily aggression . But it was not , as elsewhere , a spirit of feudal dependence . The old ' signori ' of Corsica , never very prominent in its affairs , seem to ...
Page 84
... close together for mutual support , that peasant families can scarcely be induced to move down from their crowded eyry on the cliffs to the spacious plains beneath them . The social ideas of the Corsican stray but little there- fore ...
... close together for mutual support , that peasant families can scarcely be induced to move down from their crowded eyry on the cliffs to the spacious plains beneath them . The social ideas of the Corsican stray but little there- fore ...
Page 145
... close adaptation of his philosophy to the require- ments of a large portion of mankind . How many are there and especially men whose business makes them much conversant with the world , statesmen , men of business , and the like - to ...
... close adaptation of his philosophy to the require- ments of a large portion of mankind . How many are there and especially men whose business makes them much conversant with the world , statesmen , men of business , and the like - to ...
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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.
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