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Page 73
... never anything but an unexpected interlude , and never except to those who were wilfully blind - appeared as anything else . The inevitable clash was postponed for a decade , the unrestful , mock- happy thirties . - - Ten years the ...
... never anything but an unexpected interlude , and never except to those who were wilfully blind - appeared as anything else . The inevitable clash was postponed for a decade , the unrestful , mock- happy thirties . - - Ten years the ...
Page 202
... never became ends in themselves , never submerged the higher purpose of both parties . Any detailed study of the combatants , any inquiry into their private lives , reveals the absurdity of those theories which explain the Civil War as ...
... never became ends in themselves , never submerged the higher purpose of both parties . Any detailed study of the combatants , any inquiry into their private lives , reveals the absurdity of those theories which explain the Civil War as ...
Page 359
... never monotonous . The narrative passages are never clogged with too much imagination , and the expository paragraphs and chapters stand out with a fine static clarity . Gibbon's control of his material was so sure and his sense of form ...
... never monotonous . The narrative passages are never clogged with too much imagination , and the expository paragraphs and chapters stand out with a fine static clarity . Gibbon's control of his material was so sure and his sense of form ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
The Origins of Germany | 19 |
Martin Luther | 28 |
Copyright | |
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