Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousD. Appleton & Company, 1873 - 744 páginas |
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... racter ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the ame- nity and elegance which we generally find in the superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . His legends seem to ...
... racter ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the ame- nity and elegance which we generally find in the superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . His legends seem to ...
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... racter which so widely distinguishes them from terest in the subject . the vague theories of most political philoso phers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim If it be very moral and ...
... racter which so widely distinguishes them from terest in the subject . the vague theories of most political philoso phers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim If it be very moral and ...
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... racter on their age . The difference between one man and another is by no means so great | as the superstitious crowd supposes . But the same feelings which , in ancient Rome , pro- duced the apotheosis of a popular emperor , and , in ...
... racter on their age . The difference between one man and another is by no means so great | as the superstitious crowd supposes . But the same feelings which , in ancient Rome , pro- duced the apotheosis of a popular emperor , and , in ...
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... racter . We , to be sure , did not know what to make of him ; but his countrymen did not seem to be shocked ; and in truth they had little right to be shocked : for there was scarcely one Frenchman distinguished i th 66 They must ...
... racter . We , to be sure , did not know what to make of him ; but his countrymen did not seem to be shocked ; and in truth they had little right to be shocked : for there was scarcely one Frenchman distinguished i th 66 They must ...
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... racter from the very vices which it was the means of reforming . It was , assuredly , a hap- py revolution , and a useful revolution ; but it was not , what it has often been called , a glo- rious revolution . William , and William ...
... racter from the very vices which it was the means of reforming . It was , assuredly , a hap- py revolution , and a useful revolution ; but it was not , what it has often been called , a glo- rious revolution . William , and William ...
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