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الصفحة 130
... Taine in confirmation of his doctrine of dependencies ; as showing that a com- petent observer might deduce the peculiarities and ten- dencies of a people from half - a - dozen examples , as surely as Professor Owen would infer the ...
... Taine in confirmation of his doctrine of dependencies ; as showing that a com- petent observer might deduce the peculiarities and ten- dencies of a people from half - a - dozen examples , as surely as Professor Owen would infer the ...
الصفحة 131
... Taine on a wet Sunday , and took a stroll in a corresponding disposition through the Strand and the parks . But what is to be done on the day of rest ? There is the church and the pothouse , intoxication and a sermon , insensibility and ...
... Taine on a wet Sunday , and took a stroll in a corresponding disposition through the Strand and the parks . But what is to be done on the day of rest ? There is the church and the pothouse , intoxication and a sermon , insensibility and ...
الصفحة 133
... Taine is very much mistaken if he supposes that the English observ- ance of Sunday , as generally understood and practised , is the result of bigotry . It is the result , like so many other English customs and institutions , of a wise ...
... Taine is very much mistaken if he supposes that the English observ- ance of Sunday , as generally understood and practised , is the result of bigotry . It is the result , like so many other English customs and institutions , of a wise ...
الصفحة 134
... He should never forget what he saw when he was in Strasbourg . He had a letter of recommendation to a gentleman in Strasbourg - a good man . actually be seen that state of things which M. Taine 134 ENGLAND AND FRANCE : THEIR NATIONAL.
... He should never forget what he saw when he was in Strasbourg . He had a letter of recommendation to a gentleman in Strasbourg - a good man . actually be seen that state of things which M. Taine 134 ENGLAND AND FRANCE : THEIR NATIONAL.
الصفحة 135
... Taine was thinking of when he said that an English Sunday left no alternative between dulness and intoxication , a state of things to which all England was reduced for an entire generation , and which , transplanted to the New World ...
... Taine was thinking of when he said that an English Sunday left no alternative between dulness and intoxication , a state of things to which all England was reduced for an entire generation , and which , transplanted to the New World ...
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