The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., 36. köideJohn George Cochrane 1846 |
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... spirit before a fall . We have sketched the main features of the battle of Lützen with as much of circumstantial detail as our limits would permit , giving the gross result of a minute comparison of the several accounts of Vaudoncourt ...
... spirit before a fall . We have sketched the main features of the battle of Lützen with as much of circumstantial detail as our limits would permit , giving the gross result of a minute comparison of the several accounts of Vaudoncourt ...
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... spirit of old Fabius , " Qui nobis cunctando restituit rem , " might reasonably hope to prove victorious against the modern Napoleon , as it had against the ancient Hannibal . The whole month of September , accordingly , was spent by ...
... spirit of old Fabius , " Qui nobis cunctando restituit rem , " might reasonably hope to prove victorious against the modern Napoleon , as it had against the ancient Hannibal . The whole month of September , accordingly , was spent by ...
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... spirit of paradox he makes his Burgrave vigorous and full of life in his hundredth year , while the only young girl in the play is dying of a slow disease . Victor Hugo has been often reproached for his use and abuse of antithesis — and ...
... spirit of paradox he makes his Burgrave vigorous and full of life in his hundredth year , while the only young girl in the play is dying of a slow disease . Victor Hugo has been often reproached for his use and abuse of antithesis — and ...
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... spirit of a Roman . Her courage , however , though rising with danger is not virile : it is essentially the courage of a woman . As long as her virtue is in peril she is calm , firm , and superbly scornful ; when the danger is for a ...
... spirit of a Roman . Her courage , however , though rising with danger is not virile : it is essentially the courage of a woman . As long as her virtue is in peril she is calm , firm , and superbly scornful ; when the danger is for a ...
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... spirits and energetic hands , such a country would be im- pregnable , and even with the listless and indolent race by whom it is held , would be found no easy conquest to an invader ; for though the opinion which is sometimes hazarded ...
... spirits and energetic hands , such a country would be im- pregnable , and even with the listless and indolent race by whom it is held , would be found no easy conquest to an invader ; for though the opinion which is sometimes hazarded ...
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