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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... letter to them on the death of his friend Lord Stanhope was published ( 1876 ) by that Society in Greek and English . Personally the Minister was keenly interested in the Greek Question then urgent , and on his release from ministerial ...
... letter to them on the death of his friend Lord Stanhope was published ( 1876 ) by that Society in Greek and English . Personally the Minister was keenly interested in the Greek Question then urgent , and on his release from ministerial ...
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... letter - books , sixteen in number , of Robert Morris , Financier of the Revolution , which contain important facts ... letters of Voltaire which have never seen the light , and of which but few could find room in the present volumes ...
... letter - books , sixteen in number , of Robert Morris , Financier of the Revolution , which contain important facts ... letters of Voltaire which have never seen the light , and of which but few could find room in the present volumes ...
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... letters from great men and women of the last century - Rousseau , Madame de Warens , Voltaire , Gibbon , Frederick the Great , Euler , Allamand , Malesherbes , Madame Necker , Madame de Staël , and many others . To the collection of the ...
... letters from great men and women of the last century - Rousseau , Madame de Warens , Voltaire , Gibbon , Frederick the Great , Euler , Allamand , Malesherbes , Madame Necker , Madame de Staël , and many others . To the collection of the ...
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... letter of Gibbon in the British Museum . Some of my narratives may appear superfluous to the critical , though I hope they may be of value to those less acquainted with the life of the great historian . But , although this work ...
... letter of Gibbon in the British Museum . Some of my narratives may appear superfluous to the critical , though I hope they may be of value to those less acquainted with the life of the great historian . But , although this work ...
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... letter of Byron to John Murray , were my only counsellors . The latter , written from Ouchy , near Lausanne , June 7 , 1816 , says : ' I am thus far ( kept by stress of weather ) on my way back to Diodati ( near Geneva ) from a voyage ...
... letter of Byron to John Murray , were my only counsellors . The latter , written from Ouchy , near Lausanne , June 7 , 1816 , says : ' I am thus far ( kept by stress of weather ) on my way back to Diodati ( near Geneva ) from a voyage ...
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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 |
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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.