Reviews and Essays from "The Edinburgh."Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1899 - 292 páginas |
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... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
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... lived ; and his talents would have enabled him to accommodate himself to the taste of any age . Though he said much of his contempt for mankind , and though he boasted that amidst the inconstancy of fortune and of fame he was all ...
... lived ; and his talents would have enabled him to accommodate himself to the taste of any age . Though he said much of his contempt for mankind , and though he boasted that amidst the inconstancy of fortune and of fame he was all ...
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... lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testi- mony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
... lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testi- mony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
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