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... class , who retained , amid the roughness of the empire , tradi- tions of the elegance and good taste of the aristocracy of the previous age . A sort of philosophical varnish was very much in fashion among the literati of that class ...
... class , who retained , amid the roughness of the empire , tradi- tions of the elegance and good taste of the aristocracy of the previous age . A sort of philosophical varnish was very much in fashion among the literati of that class ...
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... these various classes - Decline and helplessness of Gaulish civil society - Causes of this The people attach themselves to the religious community p . 289 THIRD LECTURE . Object of the Lecture - Variety of CONTENTS . xxvii.
... these various classes - Decline and helplessness of Gaulish civil society - Causes of this The people attach themselves to the religious community p . 289 THIRD LECTURE . Object of the Lecture - Variety of CONTENTS . xxvii.
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... class it is doubtless more difficult to disentangle and explain ; we are more liable to error in giving an account of them , and it is no easy thing to give them life and anima- tion , to exhibit them in clear and vivid colours ; but ...
... class it is doubtless more difficult to disentangle and explain ; we are more liable to error in giving an account of them , and it is no easy thing to give them life and anima- tion , to exhibit them in clear and vivid colours ; but ...
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... classes fixed ? Did men , when once they were inclosed in their limits , remain there ? Had the relations of the various classes anything of regularity and permanence ? By no means . You constantly behold free- men who leave their ...
... classes fixed ? Did men , when once they were inclosed in their limits , remain there ? Had the relations of the various classes anything of regularity and permanence ? By no means . You constantly behold free- men who leave their ...
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... classes ; no man remaining in his position , no position remaining the same . Landed properties were in the same ... class of properties , a precise and defined . system ; it has been said that the benefices were at first given for a ...
... classes ; no man remaining in his position , no position remaining the same . Landed properties were in the same ... class of properties , a precise and defined . system ; it has been said that the benefices were at first given for a ...
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