The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, Volume 3Bell, 1892 |
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... epoch SIXTEENTH LECTURE . p . 264 Of the third estate in France - Importance of its history - It has been the most active and decisive element of our civilization - Novelty of this fact ; nothing resembling it had hitherto been found in ...
... epoch SIXTEENTH LECTURE . p . 264 Of the third estate in France - Importance of its history - It has been the most active and decisive element of our civilization - Novelty of this fact ; nothing resembling it had hitherto been found in ...
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... epoch that all national and poli- tical unity was disappearing from our land . All books say this , and all facts show it . It was the epoch when the feudal system , that is to say , the dismemberment of the people and of power ...
... epoch that all national and poli- tical unity was disappearing from our land . All books say this , and all facts show it . It was the epoch when the feudal system , that is to say , the dismemberment of the people and of power ...
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... epoch with which we are about to occupy ourselves . But if you go thoroughly into the matter , into the moral state of the men themselves , you find there is an utter absence of unity . The races are profoundly differ- ent , and even ...
... epoch with which we are about to occupy ourselves . But if you go thoroughly into the matter , into the moral state of the men themselves , you find there is an utter absence of unity . The races are profoundly differ- ent , and even ...
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... epoch that French civilization really dates ; it is there that we may begin to study it under its true name . The feudal period , that is , the period when the feudal system was the dominant fact of our country , will be the subject of ...
... epoch that French civilization really dates ; it is there that we may begin to study it under its true name . The feudal period , that is , the period when the feudal system was the dominant fact of our country , will be the subject of ...
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... epoch of which we speak . The crusades , that great adventure of feudalism and its popular glory , finished , or nearly finished , with Saint Louis and the thirteenth century ; we hear afterwards but a futile echo of them . Chivalry ...
... epoch of which we speak . The crusades , that great adventure of feudalism and its popular glory , finished , or nearly finished , with Saint Louis and the thirteenth century ; we hear afterwards but a futile echo of them . Chivalry ...
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