Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... give birth to monsters . In either hypothesis , the common source from whence you draw is the Memory . Endowed with a more or less vivid or ardent power of remembrance , you will have what is vulgarly called fecundity or sterility of ...
... give birth to monsters . In either hypothesis , the common source from whence you draw is the Memory . Endowed with a more or less vivid or ardent power of remembrance , you will have what is vulgarly called fecundity or sterility of ...
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... give perspec- tive . The very tongue is not native to the soil ; it has crossed the sea , and naturalized itself on ... gives energy and life to a language , and that an idiom detached from national society and manners , is a branch ...
... give perspec- tive . The very tongue is not native to the soil ; it has crossed the sea , and naturalized itself on ... gives energy and life to a language , and that an idiom detached from national society and manners , is a branch ...
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... give them too much of it . " For his part he does not exchange flatteries with his hosts . Far from esteeming French politeness too highly , he sees , with clear glance , how much of false and of hollow there is in that brilliant and ...
... give them too much of it . " For his part he does not exchange flatteries with his hosts . Far from esteeming French politeness too highly , he sees , with clear glance , how much of false and of hollow there is in that brilliant and ...
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... gives him excellent advice which is never followed . A plan of a Constitution for France , drawn up by Morris is peculiar by the fact , that with the exception of some modifi- cations , especially an hereditary peerage which seemed ...
... gives him excellent advice which is never followed . A plan of a Constitution for France , drawn up by Morris is peculiar by the fact , that with the exception of some modifi- cations , especially an hereditary peerage which seemed ...
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... give money to the person who will carry it to the king . I tell him that is a matter to be settled among them . He gives me an account of the strange levity and wild negociations of the Count d ' Artois , and the pitiful folly of M ...
... give money to the person who will carry it to the king . I tell him that is a matter to be settled among them . He gives me an account of the strange levity and wild negociations of the Count d ' Artois , and the pitiful folly of M ...
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