Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 12
... look into things . Morris having never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old ...
... look into things . Morris having never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old ...
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... look how he describes the materials of the coming revolution . " The materials for a revolution in this country are very in- different . Everybody agrees that there is an utter prostra- tion of morals ; but this general position can ...
... look how he describes the materials of the coming revolution . " The materials for a revolution in this country are very in- different . Everybody agrees that there is an utter prostra- tion of morals ; but this general position can ...
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... look at the Memoires de Bachaumcnt , the Correspondence de Grimm , the Works of Laclos , the letters of Madame d'Epinay , that senti- niental rouée , the letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse , who loved with so naïvely - philosophic a ...
... look at the Memoires de Bachaumcnt , the Correspondence de Grimm , the Works of Laclos , the letters of Madame d'Epinay , that senti- niental rouée , the letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse , who loved with so naïvely - philosophic a ...
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... look with pleasure upon what- ever can restrain or break it ; they seek a republic , but how will they sustain it ? France does not yet know all the evils to which the exaggerated feebleness of the executive power necessarily exposes ...
... look with pleasure upon what- ever can restrain or break it ; they seek a republic , but how will they sustain it ? France does not yet know all the evils to which the exaggerated feebleness of the executive power necessarily exposes ...
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... look , which without being what Sir John Falstaff calls the " leer of invitation , " amounts to the same thing . I answered affirmatively , and would have left the matter there ; but she tells me that Monsieur de Chastellux often spoke ...
... look , which without being what Sir John Falstaff calls the " leer of invitation , " amounts to the same thing . I answered affirmatively , and would have left the matter there ; but she tells me that Monsieur de Chastellux often spoke ...
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