Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau, and Gibbon, Volym 1Chatto & Windus, 1897 - 31 sidor |
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... century with its burning issues into the eighteenth with its serene shades . In visiting Lausanne he probably contemplated no more than a reverent inspection of the homes and haunts of Gibbon , and perhaps a paper on the historian's ...
... century with its burning issues into the eighteenth with its serene shades . In visiting Lausanne he probably contemplated no more than a reverent inspection of the homes and haunts of Gibbon , and perhaps a paper on the historian's ...
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... century of our era , four kilometres south - west from the present city , on the banks of the Flon , anciently the Laus , whence the name . Lausanne was apparently destroyed by fire about the sixth century in the course of a barbarian ...
... century of our era , four kilometres south - west from the present city , on the banks of the Flon , anciently the Laus , whence the name . Lausanne was apparently destroyed by fire about the sixth century in the course of a barbarian ...
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... century , under the Emperor Theodosius the Great . Another , the Itinerarium of Antoninus , is generally attributed ... centuries in the Pays Romand . One is from time to time struck by the traces of Roman beauty displayed by the women ...
... century , under the Emperor Theodosius the Great . Another , the Itinerarium of Antoninus , is generally attributed ... centuries in the Pays Romand . One is from time to time struck by the traces of Roman beauty displayed by the women ...
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... century , utterly destroyed Avenches , and reduced the surrounding district to a wilderness , long known under the name of Uechtland - desert - country . Avenches fell , but Lausanne inherited her ecclesiastical power and her spiritual ...
... century , utterly destroyed Avenches , and reduced the surrounding district to a wilderness , long known under the name of Uechtland - desert - country . Avenches fell , but Lausanne inherited her ecclesiastical power and her spiritual ...
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... century ( 975 ) .1 Souvenirs of the Saracens attach to many places in Roman Switzerland . There is the Fossé des Sarrasins , near Bière ; a mound near La Sarra , called the Hill of the Moor ( Maurmont ) ; and a fountain above Lutry ...
... century ( 975 ) .1 Souvenirs of the Saracens attach to many places in Roman Switzerland . There is the Fossé des Sarrasins , near Bière ; a mound near La Sarra , called the Hill of the Moor ( Maurmont ) ; and a fountain above Lutry ...
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Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to ..., Volym 1 John Meredith Read Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1897 |
Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to ..., Volym 1 John Meredith Read Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1897 |
Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to Voltaire ... John Meredith Read Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
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Sida 197 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Sida 525 - Drama: being a comprehensive Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Crown Svo, half-bound, 12*. 6d. [Preparing. Quips and Quiddities. Selected by W. DAVENPORT ADAMS. Post Svo, cloth limp, vs. 6£. Agony Column (The) of 'The Times,
Sida 13 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.
Sida 527 - The Art of Amusing : A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades. By FRANK BELLEW.
Sida 24 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Sida 3 - Ben Jonson's Works. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by WILLIAM GIFFORD. Edited by Colonel CUNNINGHAM. Three Vols. Chapman's Works.
Sida 14 - The Choice Works of Mark Twain. Revised and Corrected throughout by the Author. With Life, Portrait, and numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
Sida 11 - History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY, MP Four Vols., demy 8vo, cloth extra, izs.
Sida 67 - I heard a great peer of this realm, and a learned, say, when he lived there was no king in Christendom had such a subject as Oxford.
Sida 92 - Non, dit-il, le parfait bonheur Ne se trouve point sur la terre. Pour le trouver, divin Voltaire, Sais-tu qu'il faut avoir un cœur? Grand philosophe sans morale, Toi qui te fais un dieu de l'or, Oses-tu nous chanter encor Les douceurs d'une vie innocente et frugale? Ma foi, qui m'oJTrirait ton lot Avec ton humeur incertaine, J'aimerais mieux celui d'un sot Vivant sans soucis et sans haine.