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... observers , a tendency to dissimulation ; which nourished ( as others have pointed out with more truth ) a kind of fitful cynicism in his character , such as may not unfrequently be observed in gentle and enthusiastic natures thwarted ...
... observers , a tendency to dissimulation ; which nourished ( as others have pointed out with more truth ) a kind of fitful cynicism in his character , such as may not unfrequently be observed in gentle and enthusiastic natures thwarted ...
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... observers , alter the general estimate of his undertaking . Even now some liberal his- torians , like Schlosser , affect to doubt the reality of its effects , and assert that the great South - German ' revival ' of 1782 evaporated in ...
... observers , alter the general estimate of his undertaking . Even now some liberal his- torians , like Schlosser , affect to doubt the reality of its effects , and assert that the great South - German ' revival ' of 1782 evaporated in ...
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... observer had ceased to be scandalised at anything . But with the disorders of the Czarina's private life we need have no concern on the present occasion , except in so far as they affected her conduct of public affairs ; and so , in the ...
... observer had ceased to be scandalised at anything . But with the disorders of the Czarina's private life we need have no concern on the present occasion , except in so far as they affected her conduct of public affairs ; and so , in the ...
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... observer , jamais on ne la vit s'emporter à la colère , ni s'abandonner à la tristesse , ni se livrer à une joie immodérée . Les caprices , l'humeur , la petitesse , n'entraient pour rien dans son caractère , et moins encore dans ses ...
... observer , jamais on ne la vit s'emporter à la colère , ni s'abandonner à la tristesse , ni se livrer à une joie immodérée . Les caprices , l'humeur , la petitesse , n'entraient pour rien dans son caractère , et moins encore dans ses ...
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... observers , by its union of ease with dignity . A German envoy ( Sacken ) cannot disguise his astonishment at it . He writes of the habits of the resi- dence at Czarsko Selo , in 1774 : People appear there without swords or ribands ...
... observers , by its union of ease with dignity . A German envoy ( Sacken ) cannot disguise his astonishment at it . He writes of the habits of the resi- dence at Czarsko Selo , in 1774 : People appear there without swords or ribands ...
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