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... formed within his mind the deliberate resolution , —These things shall not endure they are simply evils , as crimes against person and property are evils , and they must be extirpated , even if my power is torn up by the roots along ...
... formed within his mind the deliberate resolution , —These things shall not endure they are simply evils , as crimes against person and property are evils , and they must be extirpated , even if my power is torn up by the roots along ...
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Herman Merivale. the objects of his scorn - over those masses which he deemed formed to obey a beneficent despot . He learnt that there was a power within his states greater than that of the Emperor ; that half the allegiance , and more ...
Herman Merivale. the objects of his scorn - over those masses which he deemed formed to obey a beneficent despot . He learnt that there was a power within his states greater than that of the Emperor ; that half the allegiance , and more ...
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... with in books of that character . It had evidently formed part of Byron's reading just before he wrote some cantos of ' Don Juan . ' feminine instability . And even a sense of injustice could CATHERINE II . OF RUSSIA . 53.
... with in books of that character . It had evidently formed part of Byron's reading just before he wrote some cantos of ' Don Juan . ' feminine instability . And even a sense of injustice could CATHERINE II . OF RUSSIA . 53.
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... formed an essential part of her cha- racter as a sovereign , and rendered her peculiarly fit to take her place as one of the precursors of that great change which civilisation was about to undergo . Im- posing names , theories ...
... formed an essential part of her cha- racter as a sovereign , and rendered her peculiarly fit to take her place as one of the precursors of that great change which civilisation was about to undergo . Im- posing names , theories ...
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... formed , as they always did , a bar to the union and independence of the country . It is easy to trace the influence of this melancholy , yet not ignoble , national history in the strongly marked character 82 PASCAL PAOLI .
... formed , as they always did , a bar to the union and independence of the country . It is easy to trace the influence of this melancholy , yet not ignoble , national history in the strongly marked character 82 PASCAL PAOLI .
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