Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticos , in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire , than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite , in which Egypt enshrined her ...
... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticos , in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire , than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite , in which Egypt enshrined her ...
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... less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less in- teresting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
... less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less in- teresting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
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... less understood , than any event in English history . The Roundheads laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body ...
... less understood , than any event in English history . The Roundheads laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body ...
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... less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? The If it were possible that a people , brought up under an intolerant and arbitrary system , could subvert that system without acts of cruelty and folly , half the ...
... less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? The If it were possible that a people , brought up under an intolerant and arbitrary system , could subvert that system without acts of cruelty and folly , half the ...
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... less rabble , who prowl round its line of march in the hope of picking up something under its protection , but desert it in the day of battle , and often join to exterminate it after a defeat . England , at the time of which we are ...
... less rabble , who prowl round its line of march in the hope of picking up something under its protection , but desert it in the day of battle , and often join to exterminate it after a defeat . England , at the time of which we are ...
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