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... letters of Washington or the travels of De Tocqueville , that till within the last thirty years the force of the general arguments against slavery and the slave trade was not denied in [ America ] , and the planters of the South , with ...
... letters of Washington or the travels of De Tocqueville , that till within the last thirty years the force of the general arguments against slavery and the slave trade was not denied in [ America ] , and the planters of the South , with ...
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... letter . According , therefore , to our ideas , the Josephine re- forms were erroneous in their basis . They tended to diminish the power of the church over the laity , but only with the view of increasing , proportionally , that of the ...
... letter . According , therefore , to our ideas , the Josephine re- forms were erroneous in their basis . They tended to diminish the power of the church over the laity , but only with the view of increasing , proportionally , that of the ...
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... letters , which he called an imperial patent ; he mustered fifteen thousand armed followers , and styled himself ' Rex Dacia . ' The revolt was accompanied with great atrocities , and repressed with equal cruelty . Horya was broken on ...
... letters , which he called an imperial patent ; he mustered fifteen thousand armed followers , and styled himself ' Rex Dacia . ' The revolt was accompanied with great atrocities , and repressed with equal cruelty . Horya was broken on ...
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... letters to Voltaire , she says , ' avant 1746 je ne lisais que des romans , ' and , afterwards , his writings . The omission of the intervening book ( Madame de Sévigné ) in the desire to please the philosopher , seems extremely natural ...
... letters to Voltaire , she says , ' avant 1746 je ne lisais que des romans , ' and , afterwards , his writings . The omission of the intervening book ( Madame de Sévigné ) in the desire to please the philosopher , seems extremely natural ...
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... letters to him playfully ' Votre imperturbable . ' † 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 ...
... letters to him playfully ' Votre imperturbable . ' † 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 ...
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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?