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that the French writers have been naturally reluctant to enter into details so disgraceful to the national character , and have therefore abstained , through patriotism - as the Romans used to do through superstition - from uttering the ...
that the French writers have been naturally reluctant to enter into details so disgraceful to the national character , and have therefore abstained , through patriotism - as the Romans used to do through superstition - from uttering the ...
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But the truth is , that the crimes of the French Revolution were excusable neither in their origin , nor in their progress , nor in their results . They were not produced by the opposition , but by the concessions , of the Court - they ...
But the truth is , that the crimes of the French Revolution were excusable neither in their origin , nor in their progress , nor in their results . They were not produced by the opposition , but by the concessions , of the Court - they ...
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He judged all matters , religious or political , in the spirit of a French refugee : feelings fully natural and excusable in one who had escaped the persecutions sanctioned by the name of Louis le Grand . Yet our toleration for his ...
He judged all matters , religious or political , in the spirit of a French refugee : feelings fully natural and excusable in one who had escaped the persecutions sanctioned by the name of Louis le Grand . Yet our toleration for his ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
426 note omit Madame de St Aignan who was certainly saved | 426 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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