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So far as the style of such a work can be separated from the matter , the style is as nearly like the style of Voltaire as 2 modern style , free from direct imitation , can be like the style of an author who wrote a century ago .
So far as the style of such a work can be separated from the matter , the style is as nearly like the style of Voltaire as 2 modern style , free from direct imitation , can be like the style of an author who wrote a century ago .
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... itself towards Ethiopia ; another entered from the southern ocean , and stretched towards Syria ; the two gulfs ran into the land so as very nearly to meet each other , and left between them only a very narrow tract of country .
... itself towards Ethiopia ; another entered from the southern ocean , and stretched towards Syria ; the two gulfs ran into the land so as very nearly to meet each other , and left between them only a very narrow tract of country .
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... we mean , that almost all the great ultimate questions which presented themselves to the ancients present themselves to us also in nearly the same form , and with nearly the same difficulties attending their solution .
... we mean , that almost all the great ultimate questions which presented themselves to the ancients present themselves to us also in nearly the same form , and with nearly the same difficulties attending their solution .
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In the course of them France was raised from a second - rate power nearly to her present position , her army became the first in the world , and the supremacy а ever . of her formidable rival , Austria , was Michelet's Life of Richelieu ...
In the course of them France was raised from a second - rate power nearly to her present position , her army became the first in the world , and the supremacy а ever . of her formidable rival , Austria , was Michelet's Life of Richelieu ...
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When the cardinal returned to Lyons to wear the laurels which he had well earned in his victorious campaign , his situation was nearly desperate . The French envoys had taken advantage of the king's illness , and of Richelieu's absence ...
When the cardinal returned to Lyons to wear the laurels which he had well earned in his victorious campaign , his situation was nearly desperate . The French envoys had taken advantage of the king's illness , and of Richelieu's absence ...
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Стр. 453 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...
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Стр. 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...
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