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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Sida xv
... hundred of which are associated with its existence . Hitherto no one has suspected such a continuous flow of history to and through this mansion— La Grotte — which now , alas ! has fallen beneath the siege of ignorance . If this book ...
... hundred of which are associated with its existence . Hitherto no one has suspected such a continuous flow of history to and through this mansion— La Grotte — which now , alas ! has fallen beneath the siege of ignorance . If this book ...
Sida xvi
... hundred years ago , when there were no address - books , and one can only resort to scattered archives . I am under great obligations to Mme . Constantin Grenier for her unvarying kindness in allowing me to examine the vast mass of ...
... hundred years ago , when there were no address - books , and one can only resort to scattered archives . I am under great obligations to Mme . Constantin Grenier for her unvarying kindness in allowing me to examine the vast mass of ...
Sida 2
... hundred years . Gibbon's old home crowns a magnificent terrace , commands an unrivalled view of Lake Leman , and stretches its length along the edge of a plateau which includes the Church and the Square of St. Francis . It has rambled ...
... hundred years . Gibbon's old home crowns a magnificent terrace , commands an unrivalled view of Lake Leman , and stretches its length along the edge of a plateau which includes the Church and the Square of St. Francis . It has rambled ...
Sida 9
... 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 within my soul a healthy exultation ; but the revulsion quickly followed in the despairing ...
... 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 within my soul a healthy exultation ; but the revulsion quickly followed in the despairing ...
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... hundred and twenty volumes of unpublished manuscripts - including the writings of some of the most celebrated personages of the last century . To these were added a large number of journals con- taining notes of my conversation with ...
... hundred and twenty volumes of unpublished manuscripts - including the writings of some of the most celebrated personages of the last century . To these were added a large number of journals con- taining notes of my conversation with ...
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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.