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... vol . i . 346 . Anyone who should undertake in earnest the task of col- lecting and analysing in one work the great subject of which the democratic historian has here only indicated the out- lines : who should endeavour to distinguish ...
... vol . i . 346 . Anyone who should undertake in earnest the task of col- lecting and analysing in one work the great subject of which the democratic historian has here only indicated the out- lines : who should endeavour to distinguish ...
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... perfectly consistent with , or rather enjoined by , the leading principles of the Gospel .'- Lord Stanhope , Life of Pitt , vol . i . p . 373 . tremely questionable whether the actual sufferings of the servile or 16 JOSEPH II .
... perfectly consistent with , or rather enjoined by , the leading principles of the Gospel .'- Lord Stanhope , Life of Pitt , vol . i . p . 373 . tremely questionable whether the actual sufferings of the servile or 16 JOSEPH II .
Page 46
... life , was then first fully per- ceived when the natural hardships of the revolution itself had been for- gotten .'- Hausser , Deutsche Geschichte , vol . i . p . 153 : 1861 . appointed to rule , he was , in truth , 46 JOSEPH II .
... life , was then first fully per- ceived when the natural hardships of the revolution itself had been for- gotten .'- Hausser , Deutsche Geschichte , vol . i . p . 153 : 1861 . appointed to rule , he was , in truth , 46 JOSEPH II .
Page 105
... curious passage on the intensely Italian spirit of the Corsicans , as late as 1830 , will be found in the Political Works of Joseph Mazzini ( vol i . ) . remonstrances , if not active interference , were to be PASCAL PAOLI . 105.
... curious passage on the intensely Italian spirit of the Corsicans , as late as 1830 , will be found in the Political Works of Joseph Mazzini ( vol i . ) . remonstrances , if not active interference , were to be PASCAL PAOLI . 105.
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... Vol- taire in tracing , for popular purposes , the parentage of modern continental philosophy . For his most extraordi- nary gift was that of assimilating , combining , and repro- ducing the thoughts of others ; so that , with little ...
... Vol- taire in tracing , for popular purposes , the parentage of modern continental philosophy . For his most extraordi- nary gift was that of assimilating , combining , and repro- ducing the thoughts of others ; so that , with little ...
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