The Quarterly Review, Volume 49William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1833 |
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Page 104
... Amongst these was the Duke de Chaulnes , better known in his own country as Duke de Pecquigny a strange , eccentric man - a great traveller and a clever chemist . Having visited Egypt and China , he at last be- thought himself of seeing ...
... Amongst these was the Duke de Chaulnes , better known in his own country as Duke de Pecquigny a strange , eccentric man - a great traveller and a clever chemist . Having visited Egypt and China , he at last be- thought himself of seeing ...
Page 125
... amongst you to inquire ! If he ask my birth , its genealogy may dispute with kings ! If my wealth , it is all for which I have time to hold out my hand ! If my talents No ! - of those , gentlemen , I leave you to judge for yourselves ...
... amongst you to inquire ! If he ask my birth , its genealogy may dispute with kings ! If my wealth , it is all for which I have time to hold out my hand ! If my talents No ! - of those , gentlemen , I leave you to judge for yourselves ...
Page 154
... 1751 , as we find by a letter of Rousseau's to Madame de Francueil on the 20th of April in that year , and it had even become a topic of Bar common gossip amongst his neighbours at Paris . * Rousseau 154 Lord John Russell on the.
... 1751 , as we find by a letter of Rousseau's to Madame de Francueil on the 20th of April in that year , and it had even become a topic of Bar common gossip amongst his neighbours at Paris . * Rousseau 154 Lord John Russell on the.
Page 155
... amongst his neighbours at Paris . * Rousseau and Diderot continued on intimate terms for several years afterwards . Their final quarrel was connected with the affair of Madame d'Epinay , and took place in the winter of 1757 . We have no ...
... amongst his neighbours at Paris . * Rousseau and Diderot continued on intimate terms for several years afterwards . Their final quarrel was connected with the affair of Madame d'Epinay , and took place in the winter of 1757 . We have no ...
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... amongst the higher orders , so far from deserving the reproach of obstinate resistance , seem rather to merit the opposite blame of too rash concessions , of too devoted personal sacrifices . A Montmorency proposing the abolition of ...
... amongst the higher orders , so far from deserving the reproach of obstinate resistance , seem rather to merit the opposite blame of too rash concessions , of too devoted personal sacrifices . A Montmorency proposing the abolition of ...
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