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... epoch , like all periods of transition . Violently agitated by the revolutionary blast , the social current had not yet entirely resumed its course . Many of the ideas which had been hurled to the ground were again erect , but pale ...
... epoch , like all periods of transition . Violently agitated by the revolutionary blast , the social current had not yet entirely resumed its course . Many of the ideas which had been hurled to the ground were again erect , but pale ...
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... epoch were wont to assemble , and where he saw for the first time the woman who was destined to exercise so noble and beneficial an influence over his whole life . The circumstance which brought about the marriage of M. Guizot was ...
... epoch were wont to assemble , and where he saw for the first time the woman who was destined to exercise so noble and beneficial an influence over his whole life . The circumstance which brought about the marriage of M. Guizot was ...
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... epoch . With what touching familiarity does the minister stretch forth his hand to the poor , obscure village preceptor ! how he elevates him in the eyes of all , and espe- cially in his own ! how he fills him with the importance of his ...
... epoch . With what touching familiarity does the minister stretch forth his hand to the poor , obscure village preceptor ! how he elevates him in the eyes of all , and espe- cially in his own ! how he fills him with the importance of his ...
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... epoch , we have derived the profound conviction , that , save a few trifling exceptions of detail , his general and distinctive characteristic as a politician is tenacity and con- sistency ; such as he was under the Decazes ministry ...
... epoch , we have derived the profound conviction , that , save a few trifling exceptions of detail , his general and distinctive characteristic as a politician is tenacity and con- sistency ; such as he was under the Decazes ministry ...
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... epoch when her decline began , when , at all events , the progressive movement of society was arrested , when evil principles were on the eve of prevailing : yet there is no one who does not think and say that the Rome of Augustus was ...
... epoch when her decline began , when , at all events , the progressive movement of society was arrested , when evil principles were on the eve of prevailing : yet there is no one who does not think and say that the Rome of Augustus was ...
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