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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... descendants of Gibbon's circle , the same cultured and gracious gentlemen and ladies , surrounded by the portraits of those who had been the historian's teachers , friends , and correspondents , and able to tell him many pretty legends ...
... descendants of Gibbon's circle , the same cultured and gracious gentlemen and ladies , surrounded by the portraits of those who had been the historian's teachers , friends , and correspondents , and able to tell him many pretty legends ...
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... descendants of a band of this people . There is a district west of Cannes , towards Hyères , including within itself a complete system of mountains , rivers , and valleys , with a fine bay opening on the Mediterranean , which was an ...
... descendants of a band of this people . There is a district west of Cannes , towards Hyères , including within itself a complete system of mountains , rivers , and valleys , with a fine bay opening on the Mediterranean , which was an ...
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... descendants of the Divonnes , also of Vaud . M. Vulliemin states that many Savoyan and Vaudoisan nobles followed Peter of Savoy into England . Some of these intermarried with powerful families , and took up their residence in that ...
... descendants of the Divonnes , also of Vaud . M. Vulliemin states that many Savoyan and Vaudoisan nobles followed Peter of Savoy into England . Some of these intermarried with powerful families , and took up their residence in that ...
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... descendants , the family of the Marquis de Loys- Chandieu , at Lausanne . 6 M. de Loys de Villardin , father - in - law of the famous Madame de Warens , at the beginning of the last century used the following words : This term Dominus ...
... descendants , the family of the Marquis de Loys- Chandieu , at Lausanne . 6 M. de Loys de Villardin , father - in - law of the famous Madame de Warens , at the beginning of the last century used the following words : This term Dominus ...
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... descendant of Enguerrand de Coucy's eldest daughter . The latter's youngest daughter married Robert de Vere , Earl of Oxford , member of the illus- trious family to - day represented in the female line by the Duke of St. Albans , and of ...
... descendant of Enguerrand de Coucy's eldest daughter . The latter's youngest daughter married Robert de Vere , Earl of Oxford , member of the illus- trious family to - day represented in the female line by the Duke of St. Albans , and of ...
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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.