The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, Volume 1G. Bell & Sons, 1898 |
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... France are now for the first time introduced to English readers ; a circumstance , from their high value , well calculated to surprise those who are not acquainted with the utter want of system in our adoption of the great productions ...
... France are now for the first time introduced to English readers ; a circumstance , from their high value , well calculated to surprise those who are not acquainted with the utter want of system in our adoption of the great productions ...
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... France , which he published in refutation of a work by M. de Vitrolles . gave the criterion of his governmental ideas , and placed him in the ranks of the constitutional royalist minority , represented in the Chamber by Messrs . Royer ...
... France , which he published in refutation of a work by M. de Vitrolles . gave the criterion of his governmental ideas , and placed him in the ranks of the constitutional royalist minority , represented in the Chamber by Messrs . Royer ...
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... France had eloquent defenders in the Chambers , M. Guizot , who was still too young to be per- mitted to ascend the tribune , sustained the same cause in writings , the success of which was universal . We cannot here analyze the entire ...
... France had eloquent defenders in the Chambers , M. Guizot , who was still too young to be per- mitted to ascend the tribune , sustained the same cause in writings , the success of which was universal . We cannot here analyze the entire ...
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... France ; and , finally , Essais sur l'Histoire de France , a work by which he carried light into the dark recesses of the national origin . At the same time he presented the public with historical essays upon Shakespere and upon Calvin ...
... France ; and , finally , Essais sur l'Histoire de France , a work by which he carried light into the dark recesses of the national origin . At the same time he presented the public with historical essays upon Shakespere and upon Calvin ...
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... France at the court of St. James's , retained in that office by the ministry of the 1st March following , and charged with the defence of the interests of France , in the stormy question of the East , M. Guizot appeared at first in ...
... France at the court of St. James's , retained in that office by the ministry of the 1st March following , and charged with the defence of the interests of France , in the stormy question of the East , M. Guizot appeared at first in ...
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