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... respects , her predilections and prejudices in many more , were strongly contrasted with those of her son : and they presented a spectacle , not very uncommon in life , of parent and child , cast in the same mould , endowed with the ...
... respects , her predilections and prejudices in many more , were strongly contrasted with those of her son : and they presented a spectacle , not very uncommon in life , of parent and child , cast in the same mould , endowed with the ...
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... respect than Dr. Johnson himself for those who possessed any . The belles lettres ' he treated with somewhat more respect , but without taking any personal interest in them . It was perhaps only under a fit of ill temper at some of the ...
... respect than Dr. Johnson himself for those who possessed any . The belles lettres ' he treated with somewhat more respect , but without taking any personal interest in them . It was perhaps only under a fit of ill temper at some of the ...
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... respect for Rousseau , whose utterances passed with many in those days for a new edition of Christianity . He always declared himself an humble believer in revelation : ' I am a soldier , and not a theologian , ' he said with some ...
... respect for Rousseau , whose utterances passed with many in those days for a new edition of Christianity . He always declared himself an humble believer in revelation : ' I am a soldier , and not a theologian , ' he said with some ...
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... , thanks chiefly to the achievements of Joseph himself — through the comparative reduction , for instance , of the noble and clerical power - it has in other respects increased , by the augmented strength of the JOSEPH II . 11.
... , thanks chiefly to the achievements of Joseph himself — through the comparative reduction , for instance , of the noble and clerical power - it has in other respects increased , by the augmented strength of the JOSEPH II . 11.
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Herman Merivale. other respects increased , by the augmented strength of the democratic element , and the great impulse given of late years to those antipathies of races which constitute the worst canker of modern polity . This problem ...
Herman Merivale. other respects increased , by the augmented strength of the democratic element , and the great impulse given of late years to those antipathies of races which constitute the worst canker of modern polity . This problem ...
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