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Page v
... thought it sufficient to mention this , without specifying to which class each belongs . By way of introduction to the first series , ' On some of the Precursors of the French Revolution , ' I cannot do better than transcribe the ...
... thought it sufficient to mention this , without specifying to which class each belongs . By way of introduction to the first series , ' On some of the Precursors of the French Revolution , ' I cannot do better than transcribe the ...
Page vi
... thought which existed among the so - called philo- sophers of that century ; to define the limits to which each was conducted by its own independent line of argument : to mark the point where each bold forerunner , like the athletes of ...
... thought which existed among the so - called philo- sophers of that century ; to define the limits to which each was conducted by its own independent line of argument : to mark the point where each bold forerunner , like the athletes of ...
Page vii
... the occasional amusement of years of an occupied life , and a relief to the thoughts in many seasons of trouble . 6 And in borrowing from the French the title Histori- cal Studies ' for my volume , I have intended PREFACE . vii.
... the occasional amusement of years of an occupied life , and a relief to the thoughts in many seasons of trouble . 6 And in borrowing from the French the title Histori- cal Studies ' for my volume , I have intended PREFACE . vii.
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... thought it clever to call them - than by suppressing their convents . There is something singularly provoking , even now , to the reader of his correspondence , in the affected facetiousness with which he replies to men in earnest ...
... thought it clever to call them - than by suppressing their convents . There is something singularly provoking , even now , to the reader of his correspondence , in the affected facetiousness with which he replies to men in earnest ...
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... thought befitting both their stations , to talk ostentatiously with his landlord's daughter . Even some of his best recorded sayings in the philosophic style , if happy in their general application , were needlessly offensive to those ...
... thought befitting both their stations , to talk ostentatiously with his landlord's daughter . Even some of his best recorded sayings in the philosophic style , if happy in their general application , were needlessly offensive to those ...
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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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