Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, Also Lists of Contemporaneous Writers and Their Principal WorksIvison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1870 - 640 من الصفحات |
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... historical . JOHN GODFREY SAXE . - Born June 2 , 1816 , Highgate , Vt . The pun and fun loving reader will find both in abundance in his two volumes of humorous and satirical poems . THEODORE TILTON . - Editor of " The New - York ...
... historical . JOHN GODFREY SAXE . - Born June 2 , 1816 , Highgate , Vt . The pun and fun loving reader will find both in abundance in his two volumes of humorous and satirical poems . THEODORE TILTON . - Editor of " The New - York ...
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... history . Napoleon is thoroughly modern , and , at the highest point of his fortunes , has the very spirit of the newspapers . He is no saint ; to use his own word , " no capuchin : " and he is no hero in the high sense . The man in the ...
... history . Napoleon is thoroughly modern , and , at the highest point of his fortunes , has the very spirit of the newspapers . He is no saint ; to use his own word , " no capuchin : " and he is no hero in the high sense . The man in the ...
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... History is full , down to this day , of the imbecility of kings and governors . They are a class of persons much to be pitied ; for they know not what they should do . The weavers strike for bread ; and the king and his ministers , not ...
... History is full , down to this day , of the imbecility of kings and governors . They are a class of persons much to be pitied ; for they know not what they should do . The weavers strike for bread ; and the king and his ministers , not ...
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... history bright and command- ing . He had the virtues of the masses of his constituents : he had also their vices . I am sorry that the brilliant picture has its reverse . But that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of ...
... history bright and command- ing . He had the virtues of the masses of his constituents : he had also their vices . I am sorry that the brilliant picture has its reverse . But that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of ...
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... history a theatrical éclat . Like all Frenchmen , he has a passion for stage effect . Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation . His star , his love of glory , his doctrine of the immortality of the soul ...
... history a theatrical éclat . Like all Frenchmen , he has a passion for stage effect . Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation . His star , his love of glory , his doctrine of the immortality of the soul ...
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