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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... remains . Bit by bit they renewed the structure , fighting against unre- lenting attacks ; but eventually , like the knife of Janot , or Rabelais ' robe , not a morsel of the original was left . The real had given way to a copy ; but ...
... remains . Bit by bit they renewed the structure , fighting against unre- lenting attacks ; but eventually , like the knife of Janot , or Rabelais ' robe , not a morsel of the original was left . The real had given way to a copy ; but ...
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... remains of Gibbon's theatre ; in fact , the odds and ends of a family life of three or four hundred years , whose threads lay before me broken and in confusion . To feel that it was reserved to me to restore this past to life bred ...
... remains of Gibbon's theatre ; in fact , the odds and ends of a family life of three or four hundred years , whose threads lay before me broken and in confusion . To feel that it was reserved to me to restore this past to life bred ...
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... remains of the Canton of Berne . Five years later , as a result of Napoleon's intervention , it became the Canton of Vaud , and the executive authority was definitively established amid general rejoicings . Vaud is derived from Wala ...
... remains of the Canton of Berne . Five years later , as a result of Napoleon's intervention , it became the Canton of Vaud , and the executive authority was definitively established amid general rejoicings . Vaud is derived from Wala ...
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... remains of the ancient Helvetian paths . ' The Roman type is still distinctly visible after eighteen centuries in the Pays Romand . One is from time to time struck by the traces of Roman beauty displayed by the women . The aquiline nose ...
... remains of the ancient Helvetian paths . ' The Roman type is still distinctly visible after eighteen centuries in the Pays Romand . One is from time to time struck by the traces of Roman beauty displayed by the women . The aquiline nose ...
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... remains to tell of former grandeur . But during many centuries it was the flourishing centre of the most populous part of the Roman country ' ( still so called ) of Helvetia . Christi- anity early placed its seal upon this magnificent ...
... remains to tell of former grandeur . But during many centuries it was the flourishing centre of the most populous part of the Roman country ' ( still so called ) of Helvetia . Christi- anity early placed its seal upon this magnificent ...
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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.