Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... Europe , the traces of ancient civilization . The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer : -the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sun- set had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
... Europe , the traces of ancient civilization . The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer : -the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sun- set had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
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... Europe , our own perhaps excepted , have at tion produced , indeed , no second Dante ; but the present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy ...
... Europe , our own perhaps excepted , have at tion produced , indeed , no second Dante ; but the present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy ...
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... Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till , to- wards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved | the spell , and ...
... Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till , to- wards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved | the spell , and ...
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... Europe , the vices which pecu- liarly belong to timid dispositions , and which are the natural defence of weakness , fraud , and hypocrisy , have always been most disre- putable . On the other hand , the excesses of haughty and daring ...
... Europe , the vices which pecu- liarly belong to timid dispositions , and which are the natural defence of weakness , fraud , and hypocrisy , have always been most disre- putable . On the other hand , the excesses of haughty and daring ...
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... Europe dates its in- allowed to their predecessors the bards . Books tellectual and political supremacy - a story were few . The events of former times were which , even at this distance of time , is the learned from tradition and from ...
... Europe dates its in- allowed to their predecessors the bards . Books tellectual and political supremacy - a story were few . The events of former times were which , even at this distance of time , is the learned from tradition and from ...
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