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Page 22
... of his dominions , his ideas , and measures , were most comprehensive and liberal . He abolished utterly , after his root and branch fashion , all authoritative interference in the way of privilege , license , ' maximum 22 JOSEPH II .
... of his dominions , his ideas , and measures , were most comprehensive and liberal . He abolished utterly , after his root and branch fashion , all authoritative interference in the way of privilege , license , ' maximum 22 JOSEPH II .
Page 43
... fashion , ' that is , we are told , impaled alive . These horrors affected powerfully the sensitive mind of Joseph , which was by this time relapsing into fixed disgust and weariness of life . It was mainly to shake off the pressure of ...
... fashion , ' that is , we are told , impaled alive . These horrors affected powerfully the sensitive mind of Joseph , which was by this time relapsing into fixed disgust and weariness of life . It was mainly to shake off the pressure of ...
Page 47
... fashion to satirise him as a mistaken , though sincere , visionary . There was , at all events , one class by which his memory was long and fondly cherished ; and it was that to the sym- pathies of which he would have best loved to make ...
... fashion to satirise him as a mistaken , though sincere , visionary . There was , at all events , one class by which his memory was long and fondly cherished ; and it was that to the sym- pathies of which he would have best loved to make ...
Page 88
... fashion of Plu- tarch's Spartans . They still show his house in the old ' Place ' of Corte , riddled with the shot fired at it by the Genoese from the cliff - built citadel above . This house was afterwards the residence of Carlo Maria ...
... fashion of Plu- tarch's Spartans . They still show his house in the old ' Place ' of Corte , riddled with the shot fired at it by the Genoese from the cliff - built citadel above . This house was afterwards the residence of Carlo Maria ...
Page 93
... fashion to think much , in the simple times when people believed in constitutions . Few would take the same interest in it now . Its best point would seem to be , that it was strictly based on the national predilections for local as ...
... fashion to think much , in the simple times when people believed in constitutions . Few would take the same interest in it now . Its best point would seem to be , that it was strictly based on the national predilections for local as ...
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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?